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Old 10th July 2007, 08:09 PM
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Default Terror alert: legal experts warn of potential pitfalls in over-enthusiastic checking

Legal experts have warned that encouraging HR professionals to take more responsibility for checking and monitoring immigrants coming to work for them could "land them in trouble". Matthew Davies, employment lawyer and partner at law firm Fox Williams, told Personnel Today: "Employers are not expected to, nor should they, act as immigration officers." Davies said that keeping terrorists out of the country was the duty of the government, which has the resources and security procedures to do so. "A reasonable employer would report terrorist suspicion to the police, but encouraging the employer to take too much responsibility could land them in trouble," he said. Fox Williams warned that employers making assumptions about suspicious activity by employees risked discrimination claims. Meanwhile, an NHS insider revealed that Asian health workers were already feeling the strain of last week's media coverage. "The profile of the race and profession of those arrested has...

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