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Hospitality & events staffing

Right to work checks for hospitality and events

Hospitality hires in waves: a new season, a festival, a sold-out weekend. Each person still needs a right to work check before they start, and hospitality is a frequent focus of Home Office illegal-working visits. Yezda clears bar, kitchen and venue teams with a right to work and ID check, and screens stewards and match-day staff with event staff screening.

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Why it matters

What hospitality & events staffing teams need from screening.

Hospitality hires in waves, often days before an event, and is a frequent focus of Home Office illegal-working checks. A right to work and ID check gets each person cleared quickly; event staff screening covers stewards and match-day teams who don't hold an SIA licence.

01

Fast enough for event week

Candidates complete their checks in the Yezda app, and right to work and ID checks clear as soon as the documents are verified.

02

Stewards without an SIA licence

Event staff screening runs every BS7858 check except the SIA licence, for stewards, match-day staff and event bar teams who don't hold one.

03

Ready for an inspection

Every check, document and decision is timestamped in an audit trail, so you can show how each person's right to work was confirmed.

Roles we typically screen
  • Bar & front-of-house
  • Event stewards
  • Kitchen teams
  • Venue staff
What we screen

Screening that fits
the role.

BS7858, BPSS, event staff, right to work and ID, and standard pre-employment screening are all ready to run, with IDV and references already wired in. Each is built from the same checks, so you screen every role to the standard it needs.

Standard · BSI 2019
Security industry

BS7858

The British Standard for screening individuals working where the safety of people, goods or property is paramount.

What’s included
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Identity verification (IDV)
✓
5-year address history with gap reconciliation
✓
5-year employment + education history
✓
Two character references + two employment references
✓
Credit & AML check (CreditSafe)
✓
Self-declaration of unspent convictions
✓
Optional four-eyes (two-person) sign-off
FAQ

Hospitality & events staffing: common questions.

Yes. Every UK employer must check right to work before employment starts. The civil penalty for employing someone without the right to work is up to £60,000 per worker for a first breach.
BS7858 screening without the SIA licence check, for stewards, match-day staff and event bar teams in non-licensed roles.
Yes. A candidate with an eVisa gives their share code, and Yezda checks it against their Home Office profile.
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