Check your labour hire documents against the way your agency actually operates

The issues are often not limited to one contract clause. We may find that your client terms, worker documents and internal practices do not line up properly, or that important points around responsibilities, information handling, supervision, pay structures, or termination are unclear. In labour hire, risk can arise from the real working arrangement as much as the paperwork. A review helps identify where your documents may be creating uncertainty, leaving gaps, or failing to reflect how placements are actually managed on the ground.

That will usually include your main labour hire or staffing agreements, recruiter or worker onboarding documents, and any related policies that affect how the arrangement operates in practice. Depending on what your agency uses, that might involve contractor or employment documents, privacy-related materials, and terms used with host businesses. The review is centred on the core documents you already have in place. It is not a full audit of every internal process, and it does not include rewriting all materials unless it is included in the agreed scope.

Because the legal position often depends on what actually happens in the placement, not just what the contract says. For example, who directs the worker, who handles complaints, who controls day-to-day work, and how information is collected, used and shared can all affect the risk profile. A document may look acceptable in isolation but still create issues if it does not match the factual context. That is why we review the paperwork against your operating model rather than treating compliance as a box-ticking exercise.

Off-the-shelf wording can help you see the usual structure, but it may not deal with the facts that make your arrangement different. However, labour hire businesses often need closer attention than a generic set of forms provides. Recruitment and staffing arrangements can involve multiple parties, different engagement models, and sensitive handling of worker and client information. A template may not reflect your actual onboarding flow, placement structure or privacy practices. This review helps test whether your current documents fit the way your agency operates, and whether any clauses need to be updated, clarified or expanded.

No service can promise that. This review can help you assess your position and reduce risk, but it focuses on helping you prepare clearly and understand the practical risks in every scenario. Labour hire risk depends on the documents, the working arrangement and the factual context, including how your business handles information in practice. The fixed-fee is for legal review and recommendations, not for implementing operational changes, managing staff issues, dealing with regulators, or representing you in a dispute. If you need further support, we can scope that separately.

Just submit an enquiry via this page or click the 'get started' button on our website to submit an enquiry. After you've submitted an enquiry, one of our legal consultants will review your enquiry within 1 business day and get in touch to get a better idea of exactly what you are looking for.

Then your legal consultant will send through an email with a bit more information about the services you need, along with a fixed fee quote setting out costs, scope of the service and timing. Have a read through it, and if you're happy with the scope, you can accept and sign our engagement letter online - easy!

Once you've formally accepted, we'll connect you with a specialist lawyer and they will work with you to complete your project. They will contact you by email or phone if they need to get in touch.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Labour Hire Compliance Review service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We operate completely online, which means we can help you wherever you are in New Zealand. We have office spaces in Sydney, and in Melbourne, but our use of technology allows our team members to work remotely from around the world. Our legal team are mostly based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. We also have a London office for Sprintlaw UK.

Our legal team is made up of experienced lawyers, who are specialists in various areas of law and hold an Australian legal practising certificate. None of our Sprintlaw lawyers are New Zealand qualified lawyers and they do not currently hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

They provide legal services working remotely from Australia via our 'legal consultancy' model, through which (under section 6 and section 35 of the New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006) our Australian legal team are permitted to provide legal services to New Zealand businesses provided they do not provide services in certain 'reserved' areas of law. You can read our FAQ page to learn a bit more about our 'legal consultancy' model.

Given the strong similarities between Australian and New Zealand law, and the areas of law in which we practice (being small business and startup law), we do not view the fact that our lawyers have not qualified in New Zealand as having any substantive impact on the quality of our service. We are committed to ensuring that we provide high quality, affordable legal services to all our New Zealand clients.

Our legal team have all trained at leading firms, but have left the traditional corporate law world to join us on our mission to create a new and better way of delivering legal services. They have specialist expertise in technology law, intellectual property law, contract drafting and review, corporate law and commercial law.