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Easing the compliance burden with ETZComply…

ETZComply is the value-added functionality of our recruitment back office solution that enables agencies to take control of the compliance burden and it’s now free to all ETZ clients.

Many sectors of the economy have seen the end of the era of light-touch regulation. Simply issuing guidelines and expecting businesses to follow them has proved wholly inadequate for curbing the worst excesses of companies and individuals.

The financial services sector, employment and the universal matter of data security are just three areas where light-touch processes have given way to stronger, more formally legislated regulatory frameworks. And regulatory bodies have been given increased powers, giving them the teeth to force compliance.

Recruitment and compliance

Recent years have seen the compliance burden for recruitment agencies increase significantly.

AWR may be specific to the UK, but many countries have toughened their stance on the employment status of migrant workers.

In the EU, free movement and the right to work is ‘passported’ by possession of an EU passport from a full member European Union state. However, workers from outside the EU are likely to have alternative and sometimes more complex forms of documentation for establishing the right to work.

The right to work may be one thing, but then there’s tracking qualifications, certifications and accreditations. On top of that, agencies acting in good faith may be caught out by candidates or agency workers presenting with falsified or stolen documents.

There can be a lot of information to be gathered, copied and filed for easy retrieval when it’s needed. There’s also the need to accurately track when documents expire. So, how do agencies get it right?

Get compliance right for FREE with ETZComply

ETZComply makes it easy for recruitment firms to get on top of compliance issues, both on the agency workers and for client contracts. There are three elements to ETZComply:

• Candidate online profile 
  • Candidates enter their own information using online forms on any device. As well as saving agency admin time, this shifts the responsibility for the accuracy of the information entered completely on to the candidate.

• Create custom document packs 
  • To meet all the typical business requirements of agency business, documentation packs are produced to meet a range of purposes – contracts, legal, support material, and there’s even an in-built mail-merge.

• Stay compliant 
  • Reduce compliance risk with reports that alert agency admin teams about expiring documents that have been used to establish candidate rights to work.

To see how much time ETZComply saves in manual documentation management and replicating contract information, just click to Book a Free Demo.