The Home Office will allow you to undertake further employment, however there are restrictions.

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.