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Marcico Pty Ltd has been fined $60,000 for providing labour hire services to a Bowen farm without a licence.

Better Crop Management Pty Ltd, its director, Rodney Parker, and another man, Joseph Zappia, have been slapped with fines totalling almost a quarter of a million dollars for breaches of the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017. This follows an appearance in the Ipswich Magistrates Court on 15 September 2021. 

On the third anniversary of Queensland’s nation-leading labour hire licensing laws, the state’s Industrial Relations Minister has once again called for national action to protect workers.

Another South-east Queensland company has been fined for providing labour hire without a licence.

A number of unlicensed labour hire providers, and B&E Poultry (Qld) Pty Ltd, the poultry processor who engaged them to provide workers for its Ormeau factory when they did not have a labour hire licence, have received fines totalling $310,000.

Queensland’s labour hire licensing scheme is the first of its kind in Australia.

A new public health direction has been made by the Chief Health Officer which impacts labour hire providers who employ seasonal workers in the agriculture industry in Queensland.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has assured growers they can maintain a seasonal workforce while meeting their COVID-19 public health obligations.

Yellow Hoa Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $120,000 in the Caboolture Magistrates Court for operating without a licence under the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017, the highest penalty imposed to date.

Monstershield Pty Ltd has been convicted and fined $60,000 in the Emerald Magistrates Court for operating without a licence under the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2017.