Increase in Immigration Skills Charge from 16 Dec 2025
Immigration Skills Charge Increase from 16 December 2025 The Immigration Skills Charge is a mandatory fee paid by most UK employers when sponsoring overseas workers under either the Skilled Worker or the Global Business Mobility Senior or Specialist Worker visa routes. The charge is paid up front when a Certificate of Sponsorship is […]
MAC Report December 2025: Skilled Worker Visas & UK Tax
Section A: MAC Report December 2025 The Migration Advisory Committee’s report on the fiscal impact of immigration is a technical assessment of how immigration interacts with the UK’s public finances, and it is written for policymakers who increasingly justify immigration rules through economic and fiscal outcomes. For employers who rely on the Skilled […]
Unfair Dismissal Compensation Cap to be Abolished
Unfair Dismissal Compensation Cap to be Removed The government has published an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill which would remove the statutory cap on the compensatory award for ordinary unfair dismissal. The amendment deletes section 124 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, which is the provision that currently limits compensation to the […]
British Born Children of Migrants: New Deportation Rules
British-born children policy update The new asylum and returns plan confirms a harder line on families with no right to stay in the UK, including children born here to parents without secure status. Ministers have now been clear that where a family’s claim fails, removal will normally cover the whole family unit, including […]
Employment Rights Bill Unfair Dismissal: 6 Months Not Day 1
Employment Rights Bill Unfair Dismissal Manifesto Pledge & Initial Proposals The original plan was to introduce ordinary unfair dismissal protection from the first day of employment. This would have removed the existing two year qualifying period and created a new framework where every dismissal required a fair reason and a fair process from […]
Employment Case Law Update November 2025
National Minimum Wage Increase from April 2026 The government has confirmed new National Minimum Wage rates for pay periods starting on or after 1 April 2026. The main adult rate for workers aged 21 and over will rise to £12.71 per hour. The 18 to 20 rate will increase to £10.85 per hour. […]
Shabana Mahmood: UK Immigration Overhaul
Overview of the ILR Changes for UK Settlement The Earned Settlement proposals are outlined the document ‘A Fairer Pathway to Settlement: A statement and accompanying consultation on earned settlement‘ published today, 20 November 2025. A public consultation runs until 12 February 2026 and no rules have changed yet. The core proposal is to […]
UK Immigration Asylum Reforms Published
Section A: UK Asylum Reforms Published The new asylum reforms will usher in a new framework, replacing stable long-term protection with a rolling and conditional model, reducing access to support, tightening human rights routes, accelerating removals and binding right to work enforcement into the wider system. These reforms sit across refugee protection, asylum […]
UK to Model Denmark Immigration System
Proposals for UK Immigration Reform The Home Secretary has now trailed a number of headline reforms to UK asylum and protection, although the full legislative package has not yet been published. Mahmood reportedly dispatched senior Home Office officials to Denmark last month, under instruction to examine the Danish approach to border management, refugee […]
UK Immigration Rules Changes from 11 November 2025
Part Suitability replaces Part 9 From today Part 9 is deleted and replaced in full by Part Suitability. Application refusal and cancellation grounds now sit in one place and routes point to this document for both suitability and any overstayer exceptions. Paragraph 39E is moved into Part Suitability so the overstayer disregard is […]