Labour Hire Compliance: AU & NZ Legal Obligations
Engage Labour Hire With Confidence
Engaging labour hire with confidence starts with knowing where your responsibilities sit. Labour hire is a key risk area in modern slavery, wage theft and unfair work practices, and host employers share responsibility with their labour providers. This micro-course walks through the core legal and ethical expectations for labour hire in Australia and New Zealand, and explains how host businesses can manage third-party labour risks.
You’ll learn about the labour hire licensing and registration landscape, the responsibilities of hosts and providers, and how to conduct due diligence, strengthen contracts and monitor providers. You’ll also learn how to check worker documentation, right-to-work evidence and employment records, and where audits involving labour hire workers commonly find non-conformances.
Who Should Enrol
- Business Owners and Site Managers: Leaders who use labour hire workers and are responsible for the oversight of third-party labour.
- Procurement and Contract Managers: Staff who select, contract and monitor labour hire providers.
- HR and Compliance Professionals: Personnel responsible for worker documentation, right-to-work checks and employment records.
- Quality Assurance and Audit Coordinators: Staff preparing sites for audits that involve labour hire workers.
- Supervisors and Team Leaders: Those who direct labour hire workers day to day.
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).
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the labour hire licensing and registration landscape.
- Recognise the responsibilities of host businesses and labour hire providers.
- Conduct due diligence before engaging a labour hire provider.
- Strengthen contracts and ongoing monitoring processes.
- Check worker documentation, right-to-work evidence and employment records.
Course Topics & Core Skills
- Licensing and Registration: The labour hire licensing and registration landscape.
- Shared Responsibilities: Responsibilities shared between host employers and labour providers.
- Oversight of Providers: Contracts, due diligence and monitoring of labour providers.
- Worker Records: Worker documentation, right-to-work and record-keeping.
- Audit Readiness: Common non-conformances in audits involving labour hire workers.
Why This Training Matters in Industry
Labour hire is a key risk area for modern slavery, wage theft and unfair work practices, and hosts have responsibilities of their own. In the Australian states and territories that have labour hire licensing schemes, providers must be licensed and hosts must only use licensed providers.
In New Zealand, a host that directs or controls a labour hire worker’s day-to-day work can be added to that worker’s personal grievance claim as a controlling third party. In both countries, due diligence, clear contracts and ongoing monitoring help you manage third-party labour risks and show auditors what you are doing.
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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