Recommendation 19

The Committee welcomes the Government’s focus on labour market enforcement to tackle non-compliance. However, if the Fair Work Agency (FWA) is to be given new powers it will also need more resource. Efficiencies made from combining current budgets will not be enough. The Government must set out to the Committee its target for funding the FWA so that our country reaches, as a minimum, the ILO’s benchmark of one labour market inspector per 10,000 workers by the end of this Parliament. The Government should set out a strategy and a timeline for delivering this resource. (Recommendation, Paragraph 95)