In force

Since 1 October 2026, right to work duties also cover subcontractors, online platform workers and some businesses that use another employer’s workers.

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Proving you are one of the good employers.

A sponsored worker’s permission to be here is tied to their employer. The question is never whether you charged the worker. It is whether you can show you did not.

The rule that revokes licences.

Where a Certificate of Sponsorship is assigned to a Skilled Worker on or after 31 December 2024 and the sponsor asks them to pay any part of that charge, or recoups it afterwards, the Home Office guidance says the licence will normally be revoked. From 9 April 2025 the restriction reaches the other sponsored routes, and the sponsor licence application fee and its associated administrative costs are covered too.

What Stamped HR records.

  1. 01

    A fee declaration

    That the prohibited costs were not charged and will not be recouped. Acknowledged by the worker as well as the employer, and dated.

  2. 02

    Hours against pay

    Hours and payslips sit in one place, so the arithmetic is checked, not assumed. Pay that does not support the minimum wage surfaces to you first.

  3. 03

    Rights, in plain language

    Issued, acknowledged by a named person on a date, and stored with a fingerprint of what they were shown.

  4. 04

    A route to raise a concern

    To whoever you nominate, recorded as raised and when. Alongside the independent routes, never instead of them.

Who is enforcing this now

Fair Work Agency

Launched 7 April 2026: minimum wage enforcement, employment agency regulation, gangmasters licensing and labour exploitation in one body, taking on penalties where tribunal awards go unpaid.

The Home Office

Sponsor duties, compliance visits, and the cost-recoupment rule that normally ends in revocation.

Modern Slavery Act, section 54

An annual statement for organisations with turnover above £36 million. The government has said it is reviewing the threshold, the reporting rules and the penalties.

Questions
Can we really lose the licence over a fee?
Yes, and it is one of the few places the guidance says so plainly. Where a Certificate of Sponsorship is assigned to a Skilled Worker on or after 31 December 2024 and the sponsor asks the worker to pay any of that charge, or tries to recoup it, the Home Office says it will normally revoke the licence. From 9 April 2025 the same applies across the other sponsored routes, and the licence application fee and its administrative costs cannot be passed on either.
We would never do that. Why does it matter to us?
Because the question at an inspection is not whether you did it, it is whether you can show you did not. A signed record at the point of sponsorship, made by both sides, is a far better answer than an assurance given eighteen months later.
Does Stamped HR detect exploitation?
No. What it does is keep the records that make mistreatment harder to conceal — hours against pay, fees against rules, briefings against acknowledgements — and put independent routes in front of the worker.
If a worker raises something serious, what happens?
It reaches whoever you nominate, with a record that it was raised and when. Stamped HR does not investigate, and it is never the only route: a worker is always shown how to contact the Fair Work Agency and the Modern Slavery Helpline independently of their employer.
Do we need a modern slavery statement?
If your annual turnover is above £36 million, yes — section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act requires one each year. Some of what a statement describes, such as hours against pay and briefings against acknowledgements, is recorded here, but writing the statement is yours.

Review worker-protection records.

Fifteen minutes on whether yours could prove it, starting with the fee question.

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