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		benmmurphy 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for wor... I don't understand how people are able to work in the UK illegally without employers already breaking the law. Employers are required to pay payroll taxes for their employees and you need a national insurance number for the employee to do this. I'm not sure how this fixes something that should already be fixed.

cassianoleal 3 months ago [–]

Not just that but there's already the "share code" system that's used to verify status against the Home Office.

This smells a lot of "think of the children" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

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