LHA is working with Victoria Police and other regulators to investigate the alleged contraventions of labour hire laws.
Some clients of MA Services Group paid contract rates too low for the company to cover the cost of wages, benefits and taxation at lawful rates.
BK Labour Hire’s licence was cancelled following joint action with Victoria Police’s Hawk Taskforce, as part of a continuing focus on the construction industry.
LHA inspections found Kyshan Pty Ltd was housing workers in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions across two properties.
LHA’s annual report highlights progress towards its strategic objective to achieve high impact compliance and enforcement outcomes.
LHA’s annual report highlights progress towards its strategic objective to create and maintain a fair and lawful labour hire industry.
LHA takes licensing action to prevent worker exploitation, with 103 licences refused in 2024-25.
Reports of forced labour and exploitation have risen by almost 140 per cent in the past six years.
Host businesses face fines and disruption if they fail to comply with licensing obligations.
Investigations are ongoing into alleged non-compliance uncovered by LHA officers.
LHA compliance and enforcement in horticulture has led to 220 cancelled licences and over $2 million in penalties since 2019.
Surprise inspections at meat processing facilities across south west Victoria zero in on non-compliance in the industry.
LHA identifies individual living the high life after failing to pay penalties imposed by the Supreme Court.
Alleged non-compliance included unlicensed labour hire and illegal phoenix activity.
The 46-agency Phoenix Taskforce was established in 2014 to detect, deter and disrupt illegal phoenixing.
The Labour Hire Authority (LHA) highlights progress towards its strategic objective to achieve high impact compliance and enforcement outcomes in its 2023-24 annual report.
The Labour Hire Authority (LHA) highlights progress towards its strategic objective to create and maintain a fair and lawful industry in its 2023-24 annual report.
The site visit follows a report to LHA alleging concerns about the welfare of workers at the facility.
The site visits included further collaboration between LHA and FWO, and interviews with licence applicants and workers.
Information shared between the regulators uncovered alleged unlicensed operations on farms in the Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula.
2023-24 saw the highest ever number of labour hire licences in force, and record-breaking compliance and enforcement action
The campaign will run throughout July, covering digital, social media and press channels
LHA increases its focus on education, engagement and compliance in the meat and poultry processing industries.
Inspectors attended a horticulture business in Melbourne to investigate claims of wage underpayments.
The company was granted multiple deadline extensions, after repeated requests to provide evidence that it was compliant with legal obligations.
Several site visits uncovered a range of concerns, as LHA increases its focus on the meat and poultry industry.
The meat processing industry will be a focus of Labour Hire Authority (LHA) engagement and compliance activities this summer.
Recent high-profile prosecutions show impact of licensing laws and interstate collaboration.
Correctly classifying workers helps to ensure businesses are paying the correct entitlements.
The conditions require the provider to supply LHA with a payroll summary report each month.
LHA has imposed supply chain transparency conditions on the licence of a large security provider.
The conditions imposed are intended to ensure workers are paid correctly and LHA has transparency over the supply chain.
New cleaning businesses are responding to a targeted LHA campaign, with most now applying for a labour hire licence up front.
LHA alleges a horticulture provider subcontracted to seven unlicensed providers to supply pickers for orchards in the Cobram area.
Read about the latest outcome of LHA’s focus on the Victorian horticulture industry.
A Victorian company has had its labour hire licence application refused after an investigation by LHA.
LHA’s focus on unlawful engagement of independent contractors continues.
LHA has imposed conditions on a security provider’s licence after its arrangements with subcontractors raised concerns.
Issues in the horticulture industry are a focus for Labour Hire Authority compliance and engagement work in 2023.
Provider is not up-front after low contract prices uncover risk of non-compliance.
LHA recently cancelled a provider’s licence after an attempt to thwart an investigation.
The LHA recently completed an operation at the 2023 Australian Open to speak with security workers about their employment conditions.
LHA is collaborating with the Queensland Labour Hire Licensing Compliance Unit to tackle worker exploitation among providers operating across both states.
Avoid issues by renewing your labour hire licence in advance
LHA has been cracking down on phoenixing – learn more about this highly illegal practice and the warning signs to look out for.
Where licence applicants are not fit and proper, applications may be refused
Be aware of LHA’s compliance focus in the commercial cleaning industry.
A Victorian company and its director have been fined a total of $483,428.40 – the highest combined penalty in Australian history for contraventions of labour hire law – following a successful prosecution by the Labour Hire Authority (LHA).
Our work in the security industry has highlighted the need for vigilance about compliance throughout labour supply chains.
There are serious consequences for providers who don’t comply with their obligations, as shown in recent cases in the horticulture and meat processing industries.
The LHA conducted compliance visits to nine farms and nine worker accommodation premises and discovered a number of concerning issues.
Labour hire providers subcontracting to another provider must consider whether the arrangements allow the subcontractor to meet their legal obligations.
Labour hire providers must not use sham contracting to avoid giving employees their correct entitlements.
The Labour Hire Authority (LHA) has been running a compliance campaign designed to target sham contracting in the labour hire industry.
Issues identified during recent visits to Murray Region farms demonstrated how important it is for hosts to understand who is working at their farms and under what conditions and, as a result, avoid contravention of labour hire laws.