Labour user best practice
Labour users have an essential role in maintaining the health, safety and welfare conditions for workers.
Check your labour provider is licensed
If you are a labour user in the sectors regulated by the GLAA, you must use a licensed labour provider. It is a criminal offence to supply labour without a licence or use an unlicensed labour provider.
The list below sets out what you can do to ensure you are using workers from a licensed provider:
- Use the public register to check your labour provider has a current GLAA licence
- Sign up for the active check service to keep up to date with any changes to your labour provider’s licence
- Read the ‘Supermarkets' and suppliers best practice guide’ and conduct an audit of your labour provider
- Check the minimum charge rates table to calculate whether your labour provider is charging an acceptable rate - these can be found under GLAA Briefs
- Make sure you have a list of all the workers on site
- Inform the GLAA of any breaches to the licensing standards
- Contact us if you need any advice or guidance
How you can help your labour provider
You can work with your labour provider to help them retain their licence:
- Have your agreement with them in writing
- Co-operate with them to ensure the work site complies with health and safety legislation
- Pay a rate that is high enough to meet legal requirements
Shellfish gathering
If you are a labour user in the shellfish gathering sector you are classed as a gangmaster and will require a licence. Click on the link for more information on this sector.
Sub-contracting
You should be aware of any other labour providers that your labour provider uses and ensure they have records of all sub-contracts. Check that all sub-contractor labour providers have a GLAA licence.
Find out more...
Reasonable steps booklet: Defra guidance for labour users
The Supplier/Retailer Protocol: How the GLAA, retailers and suppliers will work together