illegal worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofillegalandworker
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illegal
adjective
uk/ɪˈliː.ɡəl/us/ɪˈliː.ɡəl/
not allowed ...
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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofillegalandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Article 3 also includes the requirement that there must be a possibility of imposing on the employer the cost of removal of anillegalworker.
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Graduation for these youth serves as a traumatic change in status and identity from student to illegal alien andillegalworker.
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Most importantly, now all information of all employees is available, directly and online, the fraud fighting (illegal workers and premium evasion) can be done effectively.
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We should target people who employ illegal workers to ensure that significantly more are prosecuted.
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Enforcement can lead to the deportation of illegal workers or the imprisonment of operators.
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What is the scale of the problem of employers taking on illegal workers?
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The employers benefit most from the efforts of illegal workers.
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At least 10,000 illegal workers were detected in 1994—a dramatic increase on previous years.
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Regardless of the need to strengthen procedures aimed at combating the use of illegal workers, it is unacceptable that this directive punishes both the transgressor and the victims.
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This serves to protect workers and prevents competition being distorted in a way which benefits those enterprises that wish to grow rich on the backs of illegal workers.
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However, we also need to tackle illegal immigration and the exploitation that often arises from this, particularly by furthering the proposal to penalise those who employ illegal workers.
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This result indicates a substantial majority in favour of controls on the employment of illegal workers and suggests that this policy would have significant support among small business owners.
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The laws on dismissal are very strict, with the result that employers try to bypass these laws by recruiting illegal workers.
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Thanks to today's vote, employing illegal workers will henceforth cost employers dear and may even put them in prison.
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Unscrupulous employers benefit from these illegal workers who are prepared to work for very poor rates and in dangerous conditions.
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The most important issue is not to punish the illegal workers from third-party states, but to penalise the employers, who are in a much stronger position.
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They have become illegal workers.
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