Labour hire for your 88 days

5 checked employers, 3 hiring now. Labour hire companies and contractors that place workers on farms. They are not farms: you are employed by them and work on a host farm. In Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT they need a labour hire licence.

Hiring now means a live job on Matey, a hiring notice from the employer or a job ad in the last 30 days. The 88-day line checks the listing's postcode against the Home Affairs lists; the kind of work matters too, so confirm with the employer and keep your payslips. How entries are checked

Don't pay for 88-day contact lists

People sell lists of thousands of farm contacts for your 88 days. Most are old phone numbers and farms that aren't hiring. Matey's farm directory and job board are free, and backpackers who worked there can say whether they'd go back.