Insurables — Australian business risk, sourced and dated

Recruiters: workers compensation requirements in New South Wales

Statutory cover for injury to workers, arranged through each state or territory scheme rather than on the open market.

Data as at

Verified for New South Wales

  • Licence liability condition: No licence exists for this occupation in New South Wales, so there is no licence condition to carry an insurance requirement. Any cover the business holds is driven by contracts, landlords and its own risk appetite rather than by a regulator. NSW · effective 2026-08-24 Building Commission NSW · 2026-08-13
  • Licence evidence required: None to a regulator. In practice the evidence that gets requested comes from client companies and their procurement teams, and from workers compensation obligations as an employer. NSW · effective 2026-08-24 Building Commission NSW · 2026-08-13
  • Licensing body: Nobody. New South Wales does not currently run a mandatory labour hire licensing scheme, and there is no separate recruitment or employment agent licence. This is a live point of difference between states: Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT operate labour hire licensing schemes, and NSW publishes links to those registers rather than maintaining one of its own. A labour hire business supplying workers into those states may need a licence THERE while needing none at home. NSW · effective 2026-08-24 Building Commission NSW · 2026-08-13

What contracts commonly ask for

Principals and head contractors set their own insurance requirements, and those are frequently higher than a licence condition. The requirement that binds is the higher of the two, and both have to be read from the actual document.

What this cover costs

This site publishes no cost benchmark for this cover. A benchmark needs a real sample of documents, and none is published until the sample is large enough to compute a median honestly. A benchmark from a handful of policies is a guess with a decimal point.

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