Permission extended for foreign workers taking extra jobs

Wednesday 27 September 2023

Registered and licensed employees will be able to take on any number of part-time roles with other employers after an exemption to the law governing living and working in Jersey was renewed.

The exemption under the Control of Housing and Work Law also means that businesses can employ as many of these workers as they need.

Assistant Chief Minister Lucy Stephenson, a member of the 'Population and Skills Ministerial Group', signed an order extending the exemption from the end of 2023 by a further year.

The exemption allows a business to employ registered and licensed part-time staff, provided that they are already employed under registered or licensed permission with another employer, are continuing to work for that employer, and have no relevant restrictions on their immigration visa conditions.

Staff can then take on part-time roles with any number of other employers, and there is no requirement on businesses to seek additional permissions.

Pictured: Deputy Lucy Stephenson signed the order.

However, they must include details of these part-time workers when submitting their combined employer return and mark them as exempt in the manpower section.

Deputy Stephenson said that she had signed renewed the exemption three months' shy of its expiry date give businesses the "confidence to plan ahead".