<p>Acting on intelligence, UK Border Agency officers visited the factory called House of Creation on Wednesday and checked the immigration status of staff.<br /><br />Officers discovered that nineteen of the staff members did not have permission to work in the UK.<br /><br />They were all Indian nationals – eighteen men and one woman – who had either entered the UK illegally or were working in breach of their visas, officials said.<br /><br />Fourteen illegal workers were arrested and detained and five were temporarily released on immigration bail.<br /><br />The authorities are now taking steps to send them back to India as soon as possible.<br /><br />The business was issued with an on-the-spot penalty notice for employing illegal workers and now faces a fine of 10,000 pounds per illegal worker, unless it can prove that it carried out the correct right-to-work checks on the employees.<br /><br />"Illegal working adversely affects local communities and denies job opportunities to local people," a UK Border Agency spokesperson said.<br /><br />Employers are expected to carry out basic checks on identity documents before recruiting new staff.<br /><br />House of Creation is now facing a potential fine of 190,000 pounds and needs to prove that these checks were made.<br /><br />"We will continue to work with those employers who wish to comply with the law whilst targeting those employers who think that the law does not apply to them."</p>
<p>Acting on intelligence, UK Border Agency officers visited the factory called House of Creation on Wednesday and checked the immigration status of staff.<br /><br />Officers discovered that nineteen of the staff members did not have permission to work in the UK.<br /><br />They were all Indian nationals – eighteen men and one woman – who had either entered the UK illegally or were working in breach of their visas, officials said.<br /><br />Fourteen illegal workers were arrested and detained and five were temporarily released on immigration bail.<br /><br />The authorities are now taking steps to send them back to India as soon as possible.<br /><br />The business was issued with an on-the-spot penalty notice for employing illegal workers and now faces a fine of 10,000 pounds per illegal worker, unless it can prove that it carried out the correct right-to-work checks on the employees.<br /><br />"Illegal working adversely affects local communities and denies job opportunities to local people," a UK Border Agency spokesperson said.<br /><br />Employers are expected to carry out basic checks on identity documents before recruiting new staff.<br /><br />House of Creation is now facing a potential fine of 190,000 pounds and needs to prove that these checks were made.<br /><br />"We will continue to work with those employers who wish to comply with the law whilst targeting those employers who think that the law does not apply to them."</p>