Understanding Labour Hire Services

Labour hire is a simple idea: instead of hiring a worker directly, a business brings in workers through an agency like Insite Recruitment. The agency employs the worker, handles their pay and paperwork, and supplies them to the business for as long as they are needed.

How labour hire works

When a site needs extra hands - a shutdown crew, a project ramping up, or cover for leave - the employer tells the agency what skills, tickets and experience the job needs. The agency puts forward workers who fit, and those workers join the site under the host's day-to-day direction while remaining employed by the agency.

What it means for workers

• Access to jobs that are never advertised publicly
• Flexibility to move between assignments and sites
• One registration covers many opportunities - the agency does the matching
• Pay, superannuation and insurances handled by the agency

What it means for employers

• Scale your workforce up or down without long recruitment cycles
• Candidates are already interviewed, reference-checked and ticketed
• Reduced administration - the agency employs the workers
• Try before you hire: many permanent placements start as labour hire

Insite Recruitment supplies experienced trades, operators and general labour across the mining, oil and gas, construction and industrial sectors in Western Australia. If you are weighing up labour hire for your site or your career, get in touch.