It has been a little over one year since Queensland’s pioneering labour hire licensing laws set minimum standards for labour hire providers, who must now show they are complying with their legal ob
Published 07 August 2019
Last updated 07 August 2019
The Labour Hire Licensing Compliance Unit (LHLCU) has suspended 123 licences for failure to lodge a six-monthly report required by the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017.
Published 21 June 2019
Last updated 21 June 2019
Queensland Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace has welcomed an Australian-first conviction of a labour hire provider who supplied workers to a business without a licence to do so.
Published 21 June 2019
Last updated 18 October 2019
With the strawberry season in full swing on the Granite Belt, Workplace Health and Safety Queensland has been meeting with growers to remind them they must only use licensed labour hire providers.
Published 23 January 2019
Last updated 23 January 2019
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland will begin compliance audits of poultry processing workplaces from September with a view to cutting injuries for labour hire and visa workers.
Published 31 August 2018
Last updated 31 August 2018
Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace has confirmed a labour hire provider operating in the Lockyer Valley region has had its labour hire license cancelled – Queensland’s first cancellation.
Published 07 August 2018
Last updated 23 January 2019
Labour hire providers have until tomorrow (Friday 15 June) to apply for a licence, under the Palaszczuk Government’s new labour hire laws.
Published 19 June 2018
Last updated 19 June 2018
The Queensland Government’s new labour hire scheme is off to a flying start, with more than 1,300 applications received in its first month of operation.
Published 17 May 2018
Last updated 24 May 2018
In May and June, we will visit labour hire providers, users and workers to provide information about their obligations and rights under the new laws.
We have identified several applications in which we suspect inaccurate information has been supplied about the supply of visa workers.
