Non-compliance with Right to Work checks costs UK businesses this much...

UK businesses lost almost £50million in civil penalties for illegal working in the year to July 2016, according to figures revealed by global identity verification platform Onfido, sourced from a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office. 

2,943 initial civil penalties costing £49,472,500 were issued between July 2015 and July 2016. This number does not include second or further penalties.