The updated 71-page guidance ‘Workers and Temporary Workers: guidance for sponsors’ permits remote working by such non-UK workers but provides that this must, in some circumstances, be reported to the Home Office by the sponsor. For example, sponsors must report changes in a worker’s normal work location (as it appears in their Certificate of Sponsorship) where the worker:
- Is, or will be, working from home permanently or full-time
- Is moving, or has moved to, hybrid working (ie they ‘work remotely on a regular and planned basis from their home or another address …’)
Day-to-day changes in location do not need reporting, such as occasional working from home or working for a short period at a different work location from normal.
Where businesses have no premises, so all workers work from home, it is possible for their work location to be notified as their home address.
Operative date
- Now
Recommendation
- Employers should check out the updated guidance on the GOV.UK website and review their processes, precedents and training.
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