If you work in a recruitment or worker placement function or role, you should be mindful of potential labour rights risks when placing a candidate (prospective worker) with a client (business or organisation requiring workers).
If you want to be seen as a trustworthy recruiter or employment broker, you to make sure the hiring companies you work with have ethical and sustainable work practices. You should also make sure that job seekers are placed in companies with good practices. Placing a worker in a workplace that has unlawful or unfair work practices is likely to affect the worker’s welfare, and may affect your reputation too. This can affect your agency’s ability to attract clients and workers in the future. You should take reasonable steps to ensure that your candidate is placed into a workplace that treats its workers fairly.
Please note:
- It is not in your candidate’s best interest to be placed in a work place which has unfair or illegal work practices, and where they do not receive their legal rights and entitlements.
- Placing a worker in to such an organisation, either on a contract or on as an employee, may contribute to poor practices continuing.
- You need to be able to make sure that the workplace you are putting a worker forward for is fair and complies with employment standards. This will protect your reputation and the workers wellbeing.
You should undertake due diligence on any employer before placing any workers with them. This should be incorporated into the systems and processes of your agency.