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What's new: Compliance now reflects sponsorship status

Non-sponsored, settled, and externally sponsored workers now only see the compliance checks that actually apply to them.

Written by James Balino

We've updated how the Compliance tab decides which documents and checks a worker actually needs. Until now, every individual was being shown the full sponsored compliance set regardless of whether you were actually sponsoring them. That meant settled workers, workers sponsored elsewhere, and workers on dependant or graduate visas were appearing as incomplete because of documents that didn't apply to them.

What's changed

If a worker's Currently Sponsored setting is true, their Compliance tab continues to show the full set: Passport, Employment Contract, Recruitment Process evidence, Visa details, CoS, and Payslips on top of the base requirements.

If Currently Sponsored is false (settled, externally sponsored, dependant visa, graduate visa, or other non-sponsored routes) their Compliance tab now only shows the base set: Address history, Contact details, Employment record details, Right to Work, and Personal information, plus Disclosure checks if you operate in healthcare.

What you need to do

Nothing. This applies retroactively. Any non-sponsored or settled workers that were previously flagged with outstanding sponsored items will see those items clear automatically, and their compliance scores will update to reflect what's actually required.

If a worker's status is wrong, you can correct it on their employment record by updating the Currently Sponsored field. The compliance requirements will refresh to match.

What's coming next

A follow-up release is in progress to relax the bulk upload column validation, so that the sponsored-only fields in the CSV template are treated as optional for rows flagged as non-sponsored. More on that in the next release notes.

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