Work permits
Supplementary employment
This page explains if you are allowed to do any other work outside your normal hours for which your work permit allows.
A person who has a work permit is able to undertake work, provided:
- it is outside of their normal working hours;
- it is no more than 20 hours a week;
- it is in the same profession and at the same professional level for which the holder's work permit was issued;
- they are not employed by a recruitment agency, employment agency or similar business to provide personnel to a client (does not apply to Sports and Entertainments work permit holders); and
- for the Sectors Based Scheme (SBS) arrangements only, is for a job within the same industrial sector as the employment for which the SBS permit was originally issued.
The work permit holder is not allowed to enter self-employment, set up a business or join another business as a director or partner without obtaining further permission from us.
Under the following categories of the work permit arrangements, work permit holders are not permitted to take supplementary employment. These are:
- Business and Commercial and Sports and Entertainments multiple entry work permit holders;
- Training and Work Experience Scheme; and
- General Agreement on Trade in Services.
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Work permits customer contact centre
0114 207 4074
Customer Contact Centre, UK Border Agency, PO Box 3468, Sheffield, S3 8WA