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Information for employers

1. Information on Recruiting & Employing Migrant Workers

Employing Migrant Workers - A Good Practice Guide for Employers

Promoting Equality in Intercultural Workplaces

Employing Migrant Workers in Northern Ireland

Voluntary Code of Practice - Employing Migrant Workers
Business in the Community publication on Employing Migrant Workers

2. Documentation Checks

Section 8 of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996 places a duty on all employers in the United Kingdom to undertake basic document checks on all people they intend to employ. The Home Office Code of Practice provides employers with guidance on complying with this duty whilst avoiding racial discrimination.

Home Office Code of Practice - Preventing Illegal Working

3. Transferability of Qualifications

National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kingdom
Provides information on the compatibility of international qualifications from 180 countries.

National Centre for Vocational Qualifications
National Agency representing the UK in a European network of reference points for vocational qualifications.

Europass
A European initiative set up to enable workers to make their qualifications and experience easily understood across Europe

4. Guidance on Translations

Guidance on Translations
Guidance on development of translations into migrant and other minority ethnic languages - Animate Information Paper

5. Other Useful Resources

Managing Diversity - What´s in it for Business
European Commission

Working in the UK
Home Office Information for Migrant Workers

The Home Office Worker Registration Scheme

Information for employees

1. Equality in Employment & Employing Migrant Workers

Racism is Illegal - You Have Rights
An Information Handbook for Northern Ireland - English version (1mb, 57 pages)

Rasizm jest zabroniony przez prawo - Masz Prawa
Polish version (4.7mb, 64 pages)

Racismo é Ilegal - Você Tem Seus Direitos
Portuguese version (11mb, 60 pages)

Racism is Illegal - You Have Rights
Russian version (11mb, 57 pages)

Racism is Illegal - You Have Rights
Chinese version (8mb, 53 pages)

Rasizmas yra draudžiamas - Jus gina istatymas
Lithuanian version (1mb, 57 pages)

2. Making a Discrimination Complaint

Lodging a Claim at the Industrial Tribunal or the Fair Employment Tribunal - Frequently Asked Questions - English

The Questions Procedure - Frequently Asked Questions - English

3. General Employment Rights

Working in the UK - Know Your Rights (English Version)
Department of Employment & Learning Publication

Advice for Lithuanian Workers (Lithuanian version)
Department of Employment & Learning Publication

Advice for Polish Workers (Polish version)
Department of Employment & Learning Publication

Working in the UK - Rights for Migrant Workers (TUC)

Home Office Worker Registration Scheme

Employment Rights Advice For Migrant Workers
Employment Rights Advice for Migrant Workers coming from the new EU countries to work in the UK. Available in Czech, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, French, Spanish

Health & Safety Guides
A health & Safety Guide for Workers Great Britain - available in the following languages Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English Greek, Gujarati, Pashto, Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh

Individual Rights of Employees
Department of Employment & Learning Publication

Employment Rights Booklet series
Department of Employment & Learning Publications

4. Other Useful Information

Housing Advice Northern Ireland
Housing Advice in Your Language

PSNI Reporting Racist Incidents
Available in different languages

5. Other Useful Resources

Managing Diversity - What´s in it for Business
European Commission

Working in the UK
Home Office Information for Migrant Workers

The Home Office Worker Registration Scheme