Right to work exposure under the 1 October 2026 rules

It takes the number of individual subcontractors, gig or platform workers and agency workers you engage, the share with no compliant right to work check on file, and your penalty history, then returns the illegal working civil penalty per worker after mitigation, your total exposure in pounds, and the days left before 1 October 2026.

UK hiring managers, gig and delivery platform operators, recruitment agencies that supply workers under a client's name, and construction or facilities firms that engage individual subcontractors. From 1 October 2026 all of these sit inside the right to work duty, not only businesses with payroll employees.

Most free sources still quote the pre-2024 cap of 20000 per illegal worker, and almost all of them treat employer as meaning payroll staff. Neither is true from 1 October 2026. They also skip the sliding scale, so they cannot tell you whether the warning notice route is still open to you.

Every calculation is free and unlimited, in the popup and on the web page, with no key and no watermark. The key adds ownership and repetition: a dated .csv export of the finished audit for your board or solicitor, and alarms for 1 October 2026 and the 28-day objection window.

The comparison is the statutory scale itself. Since 13 February 2024 the Home Office starting point is 45000 per illegal worker on a first breach and 60000 on a repeat breach within three years. A single missed check on one agency worker is worth more than any audit you would commission.