Fair Work Agency

Appeal results and judgements from the Gangmasters Licensing Appeals.

What was discussed at the first meeting of the Fair Work Agency (FWA) Advisory Board, on 7 May 2026.

How the Fair Work Agency and the Department for Business and Trade will work together.

This guidance is provided to help agency workers who have raised or need to raise a complaint to FWA about their recruitment agency.

Further explanation about licensing standard 7.1, which covers work finding services that licence holders cannot charge a worker for.

Guidance for employment agencies, employment businesses and the recruitment sector on the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Check if you need to apply for a new gangmaster’s licence when you buy a business.

Guidance for people who provide and use labour in the agriculture, horticulture, shellfish, and food processing and packaging sectors.

How to apply for or renew a licence to provide or use workers in agriculture, horticulture, shellfish gathering, or processing and packaging of food or drink. 

Businesses that do not need a gangmaster’s licence when providing a food packaging service.

The regulatory tools and guiding structures utilised by the Fair Work Agency to enforce labour market legislation within its remit.

The final report of Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME) commissioned assessment on the scale and nature of labour non-compliance and other work-based harms in the UK.

Guidance on the changes that holders of gangmaster's licences must report, to keep their licence up to date.

Draws on expert seminar evidence to explain the drivers of labour exploitation and outline recommendations to support fair, safe and secure work in the UK.

Fair Work Agency note on the direct engagement model of introduction.

How Fair Work Agency officers apply the licensing standards when making decisions about gangmaster licences.

Details of people who have been banned from running an employment agency or business, including the period of the ban.

This guidance aims to help providers of interpreting services comply with the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Guidance on producing a 'Key information document', or key facts page, for agency workers.

Fair Work Agency note on acting as an intermediary.

This code of practice sets out how the Fair Work Agency (FWA) will apply labour market enforcement undertakings and orders to reduce the risk of labour market offending.

Sets out the government’s expectations for the Fair Work Agency (FWA) in 2026 to 2027.

Guidance to agents for professional sports persons to comply with the Employment Agencies Act 1973 (the act) and Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (the conduct regulations).

Guidance for businesses that use labour providers to supply workers to the agriculture, horticulture, shellfish, and food processing and packaging sectors.

Fair Work Agency note on joint employment models.

Guidance for businesses that use labour providers to supply workers for the agriculture, horticulture, shellfish, and food processing and packaging sectors.

Assessment of the progress of the Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2025 to 2026 and the impact of the DLME function from 2016 to 2026, when it was folded into the Fair Work Agency (FWA).