Proving labour hire licence currency, worker by worker

The legislation governing how you track labour hire resources and where they come from is tightening, and many organisations are not ready. If you use labour hire, you need to know whether the provider is licensed, well beyond the procurement step.

Labour hire licensing applies in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT. That legislation is tightening.

For host employers, engaging a licensed provider is only the start. You have to be able to prove, at any point, that the provider behind each worker is still licensed.

Can you show which labour hire workers are working for you, which provider they come through, whether that provider is licensed, and whether that status is still current?

Most people assume HR holds the answer here, but it usually doesn't. Core HR is built around the employment relationship. A labour hire worker is not your employee. They have no record in your HR system, so the question of whether their provider is currently licensed has nowhere natural to sit.

The engagement actually lives in the contingent workforce or vendor management layer, the system that holds the provider, the assignment and the invoice. That is the system that should enforce licence currency. Site access is the second place it matters, because that's where an unlicensed provider's worker should be stopped before they are on site.

So the work is to make licence currency a live control in the system that owns the engagement, and to give one function ownership of that chain, end to end.

Trace a current worker through it. If the path is fragmented, the real test is whether you can prove who is working for you, through whom, and under what controls.

If you are working through where this sits across your systems, happy to chat.