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Welcome to the November 2023 edition of LHA News.

In this month’s newsletter, we take a broad look – and a deep dive – into the labour hire industry and LHA’s activities across 2022-23, following the release of our latest annual report.

The report reflects the important progress made throughout 2022-23 in the mission to protect workers from exploitation and improve the transparency and integrity of the labour hire industry.

This month, we look at this progress towards our strategic objectives – to create and maintain a fair and lawful labour hire industry, to achieve high impact compliance and enforcement outcomes, and to educate and engage with the industry and community.

Elsewhere in this edition - read about how licence conditions help ensure workers are paid fairly, recent improvements to the LHA website, and our current and upcoming engagement work.

I hope you find this edition valuable.

Steve Dargavel
Labour Hire Licensing Commissioner

In this issue

• A fair and lawful industry – progress in 2022-23
• High impact outcomes – progress in 2022-23
• 2022-23 – LHA and the labour hire industry in numbers
• Payroll licence conditions imposed on horticulture provider to prevent potential worker exploitation
• The LHA website is now easier to read and navigate
• Changes to the Fair Work Act come into effect in late 2023 and early 2024
• Industry engagement: Commercial cleaning expo / Upcoming sessions for construction and meat/poultry industries

Licensing update

October 2023:

• 145 licence applications submitted
• 91 licence renewals granted
• 167 licences granted
• 65 licences refused or cancelled

Events

• The Fair Work Ombudsman has released guidance, and is also holding a webinar on 21 November, on rules and entitlements during the end-of-year holiday season.