In the UK care sector, as much as other fields of work, managers need to check and monitor the immigration status of their staff. In this article, we examine accounts from care home and home care managers of making decisions about recruitment and employment practices placing these in the context of risk work. We use data from a secondary analysis of interviews with 121 social care managers that took place in four contrasting English local authority areas in two rounds over the period 2009–2014. In the interviews, we explored managers’ views and experiences of employing or deciding not to recruit migrant workers and the extra work this potentially entailed. We identified three major themes in these interviews: vigilance, being caught, and shifting resources. The Vigilance in recruitment and managing staff theme highlighted managers’ experiences of and concerns about implementing the regulations around employment permissions and indicated their feelings that it was essential to comply with new government regulations relating to migrant workers. The Being caught theme was based on managers’ fears about the risks of being in breach of the regulations and worry about the severity of the penalties. The Shifting sources theme highlighted managers’ continued work in reaching out to fresh sources of recruitment as a response to changes in immigration regulations. Our findings expose the potentially stressful nature of managers’ roles in implementing new regulations and managing the risks of non-compliance. This new aspect of risk work reveals the tensions of managers’ role in performing their obligations to scrutinise documentation and abide by changing regulations while still running their services. As the UK moves to Brexit (leaving the European Union), these tensions look set to increase in the context of further migrant working regulations and amendments to immigration permissions.

在英国护理部门，与其他工作领域一样，管理人员需要检查和监视员工的移民状况。在本文中，我们将检查来自养老院和家庭护理经理的账目，这些账目是有关招募和雇佣实践的决策，将这些决策置于风险工作的背景下。我们使用来自对2009年至2014年期间在四个不同的英国地方政府地区进行的与121位社会护理经理的访谈进行的二次分析得出的数据。在访谈中，我们探讨了管理人员在雇用或决定不招募农民工方面的观点和经验，以及这可能带来的额外工作。在这些访谈中，我们确定了三个主要主题：警惕，被抓住和转移资源。招聘和管理人员的警惕主题强调了经理们对实施有关就业许可规定的经验和担忧，并表示他们认为必须遵守有关移民工人的新政府规定。在被抓的主题是基于管理者关于违反的法规和担心处罚的严重程度是风险的担忧。不断变化的来源该主题强调了管理人员在继续寻求新的招聘资源方面所做的持续工作，以应对移民法规的变化。我们的发现揭示了经理在实施新法规和管理违规风险中所扮演角色的潜在压力。风险工作的这一新方面揭示了管理者在履行职责时仍在紧张地检查文档并遵守仍在运行其服务的同时更改法规的紧张关系。随着英国移居英国（离开欧盟），随着进一步的移民工作法规和对移民许可的修改，这些紧张局势似乎会加剧。