In accordance with Australian legislation, every employer needs to validate an individual's citizenship and only employ them if the person has legal rights to work in the country.
This includes confirming identity of Australian citizens and storing proof of the identity and validation and for non-Australian citizens, confirming their rights to work and any associated conditions, by checking the Department of Home Affairs Visa Entitlement Verification service.
WorkPro offers an integrated citizenship and work rights function in their online platform.
The function provides employers the ability to collect and validate an individual's citizenship and confirm their rights to work in Australia.
WorkPro allows employers a flexible option to fulfil this important employment requirement.
The User Guide is linked here: How to Administer Citizenship and Work Rights Checks
For Australian citizens, once an individual has provided their citizenship information, Australian identity documents can be validated and securely stored against the candidate's profile in the organisation's WorkPro Account.
For non-Australian citizens, a VEVO check can be processed as a single check or in bulk.
Once the check or checks have been submitted, an instant result will produce a work rights certificate and contain information that relates directly to their work rights, including any conditions and limitations.
Once the check is completed, the WorkPro program will automatically continue to poll the VEVO database for 90 days, and provide auto-notifications in the WorkPro platform against the candidate's record and email a report every day of any changes to a candidate's working rights.
Every 90 days, the WorkPro platform will remind you to add candidates to the next 90 day automatic poll or archive the candidate with a single button click.
This allows employers to confidently rely on WorkPro to continue to provide automatic updates as a key workforce compliance component.
A new certificate will be produced if the candidate visa changes, and this will be securely stored in the WorkPro database to form a strong audit trail.