ACFA Employer Guide on Regulated Labour Hire Arrangements

This guide is intended to help businesses understand the scope of the new ‘same job same pay’ laws to determine what impact the reforms might have on your business, as well as providing some practical suggestions for steps you might wish to consider when navigating these laws.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has new powers to make orders that labour hire workers engaged by a host business receive the same pay as the host business’s employees if certain factors are met. Such orders are known as ‘regulated labour hire arrangement orders

Labour hire agencies and host businesses who use labour hire workers should familiarise themselves with the reforms and consider the risk of a regulated labour hire arrangement order being made and its operational impact