New right-to-work rules and safety levy hit construction today

Sweeping new right-to-work rules come into force today forcing construction firms to check self-employed workers as part of a fresh crackdown on illegal migrant labour and rogue employers.
Contractors hiring individual workers must now confirm they are legally entitled to work in the UK, bringing self-employed and non-standard labour much closer to the checks already required for employees.
Until now, statutory right-to-work checks have largely applied to people classed as employees.New extended