Eight markets. Eight compliance checklists.
Hiring administration varies far more between countries than hiring itself does. What has to be checked, in what order, before which milestone, and what happens if it is late — all of it changes at the border, and almost none of it is visible until something is already wrong.
Where we work, and what changes in each one
Open a market for its compliance checklist, what a support desk covers there and what it costs.
United Kingdom
London · Manchester · Birmingham · Leeds · Edinburgh
Right-to-work share codes, DBS levels chosen by eligibility, off-payroll status determinations and six-year regulated references.
United States
New York · Bay Area · Chicago · Austin · Boston
Form I-9 within three business days, FCRA two-step adverse action, and ban-the-box timing that varies by state and city.
United Arab Emirates
Dubai · Abu Dhabi · Sharjah · DIFC · ADGM
Certificate attestation, a fixed permit-to-Emirates-ID sequence, and clinical licensing by emirate.
Germany
Munich · Berlin · Frankfurt · Hamburg · Stuttgart
The AÜG licence boundary, AGG-safe process documentation and works council participation rights.
Netherlands
Amsterdam · Rotterdam · Utrecht · Eindhoven
Waadi registration for intermediaries, prescriptive identity verification and the VOG conduct check.
Belgium
Brussels · Antwerp · Ghent · Leuven · Liège
Dimona before the first day, Limosa for incoming workers, regional work permits and document-language rules.
Austria
Vienna · Graz · Linz · Salzburg · Innsbruck
ELDA registration before the first hour worked, the AÜG licence, and KV classification at hire.
Australia
Sydney · Melbourne · Brisbane · Perth · Adelaide
VEVO work-rights conditions, seven-year Fair Work records, state-based Working with Children Checks and AHPRA verification.
Four things that break a cross-border programme
These are the errors we see most often when a process designed for one market is applied to another.
Timing requirements are stricter than most employers expect
Austria requires social insurance registration before the first hour worked, not the first day. Belgium requires a Dimona declaration before the employment relationship starts. The US requires Form I-9 Section 2 within three business days of the start date. These are deadline obligations in their own right, independent of whether the person turns out to be authorised to work.
Checks that look national are frequently regional or role-specific
Australian Working with Children Checks are run separately by each state and territory and are not automatically portable. Belgian work permits are a regional competence. UAE clinical licences are issued by emirate. UK DBS levels must match role eligibility, and asking for a level the role does not qualify for is itself a problem.
The supply-of-labour line matters in German-speaking markets
Germany and Austria both license labour leasing under their respective Arbeitnehmerüberlassung regimes. There is a real legal boundary between providing research and support services behind a client and supplying workers to them, and a provider operating in those markets should be explicit about which side of it they are on. We provide support services; we do not supply labour.
Record-keeping outlasts the hire, and is audited
Australian Fair Work records must be kept for seven years with prescribed content. US EEOC and, for covered federal contractors, OFCCP rules require application and selection records to be retained. Germany documents against the AGG. A hiring process with no audit trail is a problem that surfaces years later, usually at the worst moment.
Before you commission across borders
Recruitment support services
What a support desk covers, how it is bought and what it costs.
What is recruitment support?
Definition, what is included, and what it is not.
RPO vs recruitment support
Where the line is, and when full-scope RPO is the right purchase.
What it costs
2026 fee bands in four currencies, and why never per hire.
Talent sourcing by market
The layer in front: researched longlists and candidate approach.
The resource library
Every guide, market page and answer in one place.
Hiring across more than one market?
Tell us the countries and the volume. We will give you the compliance checklist for each, say what a desk would cover and what it costs — in writing, before you commit.
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