April's Double Hit: Stricter Sponsorship Rules + the Employment Rights Act — What Sponsors Need to Know
8 April changed the rules. For your immigration compliance and your employment law obligations
A free compliance briefing for sponsors navigating tighter Home Office guidance, the Employment Rights Act, and the UK's new enforcement agency — all at once.
On 8 April, three immigration guidance changes took effect that raised the compliance bar for every UK sponsor. Salary compliance is now assessed per pay period, not annually. Job descriptions must be role-specific and kept current. And sponsors must now evidence that workers have been informed of their employment rights — something the Home Office will check during audits.
Those changes didn't land in isolation. They arrived in the same week as the first wave of the Employment Rights Act 2025 (day-one rights, doubled redundancy penalties, mandatory holiday pay records) and the launch of the Fair Work Agency — a new government body with powers to investigate employers proactively and fine them up to 200% of any underpayment. For sponsors of migrant workers, these aren't separate compliance workstreams. They're converging. A pay dip in a single period is now both an employment law risk and a sponsor licence risk. A contract that doesn't reference employment rights fails an ERA obligation and an immigration audit.
In this 45-minute briefing, we'll cut through the detail and focus on what you need to do:
- How the per-period salary compliance rule changes payroll monitoring for sponsors
- Why generic job descriptions now put your sponsor licence at risk
- What the employment rights evidencing requirement means in practice
- Which ERA reforms hit sponsors hardest — and how they connect to your immigration obligations
- Why a Fair Work Agency investigation could escalate into a Home Office compliance visit
- A practical checklist you can act on this week
Who should attend: HR Directors, Registered Managers, Compliance Leads, and anyone responsible for sponsored worker management.
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