Welcome to the July 2025 edition of LHA News

Welcome to the July edition of LHA News.

The start of the 2025-26 financial year brings new opportunities for labour hire providers and host businesses across Victoria.

It’s a good time for providers to update their licence details and to ensure they’re across their legal obligations – including the 1 July minimum wage and award increase and tax and super changes.

We also look back at 2024-25, highlighting the outcomes LHA achieved throughout the year. This includes significant outcomes in high-risk industries, which remain a focus for LHA compliance and enforcement activities.

In horticulture, LHA officers visited farms across Victoria, and worked alongside other agencies and regulators to target non-compliance in the industry.

And in construction, the successful LHA prosecution of five companies and three directors in September 2024 still holds the record for the highest total penalty for breaches of labour hire law in Australia. 

Our focus on construction will only grow in 2025-26, with the expected introduction of new regulatory powers for LHA to address criminal behaviour in the industry. 

It was a significant year – we delivered expanded compliance and enforcement programs and enhanced our education and engagement activities, while adding almost a thousand new licensees to the industry.

We hope you enjoy this edition.

Steve Dargavel
Labour Hire Licensing Commissioner

In this Edition

• LHA year in review 2024-25
• New financial year reminders – check your details or risk your licence
• Labour hire in the hospitality industry
• Engagement with providers, hosts and workers in 2024-25
• Details of all providers subject to licensing action in May 2025

Licensing update

June 2025:

• 82 Licence applications submitted 
• 54 Licence renewals granted 
• 61 Licences granted 
• 54 Licences refused or cancelled

Resources

• The Portable Long Service Authority is running an advertising campaign to remind employers in the community services, contract cleaning and security industries of their obligations under the Long Service Benefits Portability Act 2018. For more information or to download a campaign stakeholder kit, visit the PLSA website.
• The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has information and reminders for businesses for the end of financial year, including on superannuation and National Minimum Wage and award minimum wage increases. For more information, visit the ATO website.