Omnia Resourcing Ltd is an award-winning UK recruitment agency that drives business to unprecedented levels of success by filling qualified candidates in temporary and permanent positions. With a solid team of professional and dedicated consultants, we collectively have over thirty-five years’ worth of experience and have established an enviable reputation in the staffing industry by providing a service that is second to none.
Omnia Resourcing Ltd recognises that human trafficking and forced labour exist and could be a risk to our business. We commit to developing and adopting a proactive approach to tackling hidden labour exploitation and recognise that modern slavery is a potential risk to our business. However, we are aware of our obligations to ensure that any form of slavery is eradicated and removed at any point during our working journey. We are dedicated to working with all organisations that take slavery as seriously as we do and who share our goal to reduce and eliminate this threat in the UK.
Everyone within our business has a responsibility to ensure that human rights are protected and if any abuse is found it is reported immediately. We are proud to have strict policies and procedures in place to ensure that there is consistent monitoring of our temporary and permanent workers, checking for any signs of labour exploitation, human trafficking, and forced labour.
Omnia Resourcing Ltd are proud members of the Association of Labour Providers (ALP) and accredited by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA). We not only remain compliant against all required standards, but we go above and beyond to ensure that any form of slavery is acted upon and managed accordingly.
As part of our ongoing mission to reduce the opportunity for anyone to profit from vulnerable people, we work alongside other agencies and strategic partners to share intelligence on potential victims or offenders.
Full training on how to spot the signs of potential modern slavery, what reporting lines to trigger in potential offences, and how we can protect alleged victims is carried out with our consultants and onsite teams, from their induction and as part of their continued personal development.
We have the ability to pull live reports on any houses of multiple occupancy or duplicate contact numbers or bank details being utilised. These are then investigated with the support of the Compliance Manager. HR surgeries are carried out to manage the welfare of our workers. Any actions needed are fed back to the branches and onsite teams to enhance either the registration process or their onsite management service.
Omnia Resourcing Ltd shall:
- Designate appropriate managers to attend “Tackling Hidden Labour Exploitation” training and to have responsibility for developing and operating company procedures relevant to this issue.
- Accept that job finding fees are a business cost and will not allow these to be paid by job applicants. The Company will not use any individual or organisation to source and supply workers without confirming that workers are not being charged a work finding fee.
- Ensure that all staff responsible for directly recruiting workers are trained to be aware of issues around third-party labour exploitation and signs to look for, and have signed appropriate Compliance Principles.
- Ensure that labour sourcing, recruitment, and worker placement processes are under the control of trusted and competent staff members.
- Adopt a proactive approach to reporting suspicions of hidden worker exploitation to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority and police.
- Provide information on tackling “Hidden Labour Exploitation” to our workforce through a variety of formats such as workplace posters, worker leaflets, induction sessions, and continual internal and external training courses.
- Encourage workers to report cases of hidden third-party labour exploitation, provide the means to do so, and investigate and act on reports appropriately.
- Positively encourage and support employees and agency workers to report such exploitation which may be occurring within their communities, by contacting their local branch, onsite account team, or the local authorities.
- Require labour providers and other organisations in the labour supply chain to adopt policies and procedures consistent with the above.
Due Diligence, Processes and Action Taken
Omnia Resourcing Ltd are committed to ensuring we have processes in place to ensure trained staff complete regular checks right from the registration process.
As a supplier of labour, we understand the risk involved with human trafficking and the exploitation of our workforce is high. Therefore, we have designed our recruitment process to highlight issues from the beginning.
As a business, we have invested in the following audit programme. All Omnia Resourcing Ltd sites are audited regularly by HR and Compliance to cover the following areas:
- Right to work checks
- Work history
- Documentation in relation to address and bank accounts
- Common telephone numbers, emails, or addresses
- Full payroll process
- Registration – application forms are checked to ensure applicants fully understand what positions are available
We welcome our clients to audit us on a regular basis to ensure we have met the required standards.
From the point we receive the registration of an applicant, checks are completed on documentation, with interviews conducted to ensure any issues are highlighted and picked up at an early stage. All applications are signed off to ensure a secondary check is completed post completion of the application form.
Once applicants have been verified, they will be uploaded to our computerised database where their documentation can be monitored for expiry. On payroll we can check addresses and shared bank accounts — all of which are flagged through the system. Any issues flagged weekly are escalated to the senior team to advise next steps.
Regular HR forums with workers are conducted on client sites, where we promote the processes we have in place to tackle modern slavery, including the whistleblowing process. Our dedicated confidential email is used to identify potential issues and enable us to focus our work to help people alongside the GLAA.
Omnia Resourcing Ltd prides itself on ensuring our staff are trained to deliver to a high standard. We therefore require all our internal staff to complete a 2-day induction programme covering (but not limited to) training on right-to-work checks, compliance, temporary workers, modern slavery, and GLAA. Our training is reviewed and updated regularly.
As a recruitment agency, we are fully aware that we are at high risk for human trafficking, and this can happen anywhere at any time. However, we are confident in the processes we have in place within the company to highlight any problems at a very early stage and are committed to meeting workers and promoting our processes directly to them face-to-face and through other forms of communication such as emails, staff surveys, and worker web pages.
In 2024/25 Omnia Resourcing Ltd:
- Added to the Compliance team members to act as Modern Slavery Champions, who have undergone extensive training
- Re-evaluated all our policies on worker rights and welfare
- Paid for external ethical audits on our company
- Re-trained all our internal staff on spotting the signs of a potential victim of trafficking
- Increased our worker welfare surgeries by 46%
The Modern Slavery Statement has been approved by the Board of Directors. Updated March 2025.
