Ethical Recruitment & Responsible Labour Practices
Build a Recruitment Process Workers Can Trust
How you hire sets the tone for everything that follows. Recruitment is a critical point where modern slavery and exploitation risks can arise, especially for migrant and seasonal workers. A fair, transparent process protects your workers and your business from the start. This course introduces ethical recruitment principles and practical steps to ensure workers are hired fairly and lawfully, without recruitment fees or coercion.
You’ll learn how to advertise for, select and onboard workers with integrity, and how to strengthen oversight of recruitment agents, subcontractors and informal recruitment channels. You’ll also learn how to provide clear employment contracts, explain workplace rights, and recognise and prevent recruitment fees, deception, coercion and debt bondage.
Who Should Enrol
- Business Owners and Farm Managers: Leaders who hire seasonal and migrant workers and want their recruitment practices to stand up to scrutiny.
- HR and Recruitment Coordinators: Personnel who advertise roles, select candidates and onboard new workers.
- Labour Hire and Contractor Managers: Those who work with recruitment agents, subcontractors and other labour channels.
- Compliance and Quality Assurance Professionals: Staff responsible for ethical sourcing and modern slavery risk management.
- Supervisors and Team Leaders: Those involved in welcoming and onboarding workers, and explaining their rights and conditions.
Accreditation
- Certification: This is a non-accredited professional development course. Participants who successfully complete all assessment activities will receive a certificate of completion.
- RTO details: Training is delivered by AUS-QUAL Training, brought to you by AUS-MEAT Limited (RTO Number: 7085).
Key Topics
- Ethical and responsible recruitment principles
- Forced labour and modern slavery risk indicators
- Recruitment fees and worker-paid costs
- Labour hire and third-party recruitment risks
- Right-to-work and worker documentation
- Employment contracts and transparent conditions
- Wages, deductions and working hours
- Passport and identity document retention
- Freedom of movement and coercion
- Migrant and vulnerable worker protections
- Worker voice and grievance mechanisms
- Supplier and labour provider due diligence
- Identifying and responding to labour practice non-conformances
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the principles of ethical recruitment and the principle that no worker pays.
- Advertise, select and onboard workers fairly and transparently.
- Manage recruitment agents, subcontractors and informal recruitment channels.
- Provide clear employment contracts and explain workplace rights.
- Recognise and prevent recruitment fees, deception, coercion and debt bondage.
Course Topics & Core Skills
- Ethical Recruitment Principles: The principles of ethical recruitment, including that no worker pays.
- Hiring With Integrity: Advertising, selection and onboarding.
- Agents and Labour Channels: Managing agents, subcontractors and informal recruitment channels.
- Transparent Contracts: Providing clear contracts and explaining rights to workers.
- Protecting Workers: Preventing debt bondage, deception and document retention issues.
Why This Training Matters in Industry
Recruitment is where a worker’s experience of your business begins, and where exploitation risks can arise, particularly for migrant and seasonal workers. A widely recognised principle, often called the Employer Pays Principle, holds that no worker should pay for a job and that recruitment costs should be borne by the employer, not the worker. Building that principle into how you advertise, select, contract and onboard protects your workers and shows the integrity of your hiring practices.
Delivery Format
- Delivery: Online and self-paced, through our learning portal.
Assessment Requirements
- Assessment: Multiple choice and short answer questions.
Entry Requirements
- Prerequisites: None.
- Language Proficiency: No specific language, literacy or numeracy requirements.
What’s Included
- Learning Resources: All learning material is supplied through our learning portal.
- Tuition: A trainer is available to answer any questions you have along the way.
- Certification: A certificate of completion is issued once you successfully complete the course.
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