Our Commitment to Compliance
Protect your business with a fully compliant recruitment agency dedicated to recruiting the right way. At Blue Arrow, compliance isn’t optional, it’s the foundation of everything we do.
Compliance is essential for all businesses, not only to protect the reputation of your organisation, but also as a preventative measure against rising costs and penalisations. Blue Arrow proactively monitors and manages compliance across all recruitment processes to protect your business from risk.
The government is cracking down harder on businesses who aren’t aligned with legal standards, whether through your own internal processes or the wrong partnerships. It is essential that you understand your compliance obligations and ensure that you’re meeting these both internally and externally.
HMRC Powers Investigating and Penalising Tax Fraud
Some organisations are approaching businesses with schemes that claim to cut employment costs using ‘tax credits’ from other companies they’ve acquired. These organisations may present themselves as payroll providers, intermediaries, umbrella companies or back-office providers. This is unlawful and can cost your business more in penalties and fines.
Non-compliance can lead to:
- Unlimited financial penalties
- Repayment of all unpaid tax
- Criminal prosecution.
Learn more about tax fraud in recruitment.
ICO Enforcement for Data Protection Breaches
The ICO is the independent authority that upholds information rights, including UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Any non-compliance against these laws and legal obligations, including data breaches, can be costly to your business. Co-operating with the ICO, maintaining strong security measures, and maintaining complete reporting is essential for compliance.
Non-compliance can lead to:
- Fines of up to £17.5 million
- Fines of up to 4% of global turnover
- Criminal prosecution.
Fair Work Agency Standards
The Fair Work Agency (FWA) will be a new government body, outlined under the Employment Rights Bill. The role of this agency is to ensure compliance with national minimum wage, statutory sick and holiday pay, and employment rights. They are set to enforce all changes to employment rights and ensure businesses are providing the right standard of care to employees.
Non-compliance can lead to:
- Up to 200% penalty on unpaid statutory entitlement
- Up to £20,000 repayment per individual employee
- Up to 51 weeks in prison (for misinformation)
How We Ensure Compliance
Ensuring compliance is essential for every business, but it doesn’t need to be difficult. There are various steps our organisation takes to meet our legal requirements and support yours. With Blue Arrow, we ensure complete compliance across our entire recruitment supply chain, ensuring that your business is protected with every service.
This is done through:
- Rigorous vetting
- Regular auditing and monitoring
- Transparent pricing models
- Adherence to employment law and tax regulations
Rigorous Vetting
We provide enhanced candidate vetting, thoroughly reviewing proof of identity and right-to-work documents before placement. Each document is verified by our recruitment experts and Central Vetting Team to ensure accuracy and compliance, reducing the risk of unlawful placements.
By auditing this information, we uphold high standards and legal obligations, delivering secure, trusted hiring and workforce management.
We also conduct due diligence across our suppliers, ensuring adherence to our Supplier Code of Conduct and obligations around fraud and economic crime.
Regular Auditing and Monitoring
We audit and monitor compliance with employment and tax legislation to ensure our business and partners meet the highest standards. This due diligence safeguards fair, lawful practices.
We undergo rigorous audits on candidate vetting to prevent non-compliance and maintain frameworks such as CCS and HealthTrust Europe. Passing these audits protects your business, secures accreditations, and proves industry compliance.
Internally, we run regular audits and monitoring to uphold ethical and legal standards, including:
- Regular auditing PAYE obligations and other contract obligations to ensure these are being met.
- Review, monitor, and audit internal practices against 8 defined ethical principles.
- Regular reviewing accreditations such as CFA, Professional Passport and SafeRec.
- Regular updating risk assessments to assess the nature and extent of exposure to the risk of fraud.
Transparent Pricing Models
We make our pricing transparent so that your business knows that we are meeting our financial obligations, ensuring that you’re protected from tax fraud when working with Blue Arrow.
Adherence to Employment Law and Tax Regulations
We operate in complete compliance with all employment law and tax regulations, ensuring our administrative hygiene is complete.
At Blue Arrow, we are committed to ethical practices that make recruitment better for everyone impacted by our business, ensuring we meet our legal obligations, and supporting our clients to meet each compliance need.
Our internal legal team continually monitor compliance against the following ethical principles:
- Clear and fair employment practices
- Fair remuneration
- Safe and hygienic work conditions
- Freedom from harassment
- Equal opportunities
- Freedom of association
- Environmental considerations
- Ethical business activities
Learn more about the Employment Rights Bill changes.
