Running an employment agency or business

As an employment agency or employment business you must not introduce or supply a work-seeker to a hirer unless you have taken reasonable steps to ensure that the work-seeker and the hirer are each aware of any requirements imposed by law, or by any professional body, in order for the work-seeker to take up the position.

You must also make enquiries to ensure that it would not be detrimental to the interests of the work-seeker or the hirer for the work-seeker to work for the hirer.

Where you operate as an employment business and you receive information that indicates that a work-seeker may be unsuitable for the position you must:

• inform the hirer of that information
• make further enquiries as to the suitability of the work-seeker and inform the hirer of these enquiries

Where the enquiries indicate that a work-seeker is unsuitable for the position, or information is received that indicates the work-seeker is not suitable, you must, without delay:

• inform the hirer of that information
• end the supply of that work-seeker to the hirer

Where you operate as an employment agency, and have introduced a work-seeker to a hirer, and you subsequently receive information within a period of three months from the date of introduction, which indicates that the work-seeker is or may be unsuitable for the position with the hirer you must inform the hirer of that information without delay.