May 2026

vSure is the undisputed leader in Australian Right To Work compliance software — not because it’s the biggest company in the HR tech space, but because it was built from the ground up for one specific purpose: making work rights checks seamless, automated, and auditable for Australian employers. That single-minded focus is exactly what sets it apart.

Launched in 2013 — the same year Australia’s original employer sanctions legislation came into force — vSure is the original dedicated Right To Work platform in Australia. It has spent over a decade refining its onboarding flows, automated visa monitoring, and audit trail capabilities into a genuinely best-of-breed product, and was well-positioned to support employers when the Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Act 2024 dramatically raised the stakes.

The stakes have never been higher. Following the Migration Amendment (Strengthening Employer Compliance) Act 2024, corporate penalties now reach $396,000 per worker under a civil penalty order — up from the previous $94,500 — and individual directors face fines of up to $79,200 per breach. For serious or repeated offences, criminal sanctions of up to $1,485,000 per worker (corporate) apply, with possible imprisonment. These are per-worker figures: a single audit finding five illegal workers could expose a business to nearly $2 million in civil penalties alone. A documented, automated audit trail is the only viable defence.

The platform’s self-onboarding workflow sends an email or SMS directly to new employees, who photograph their identity documents on their phone. vSure reads the data automatically and, for non-citizens, validates visa status in real time against the Department of Home Affairs. No manual data entry. No chasing documents. No missed checks.

For ongoing compliance, vSure runs automated VEVO checks continuously against all temporary visa holders in your workforce, alerting HR and the employee directly when a visa is about to expire or work conditions change — for example, a working holiday visa shifting to a student visa with reduced work-hour restrictions. This is the critical difference between a screening tool and a true compliance platform.

vSure is also the only provider in this space to offer a comprehensive compliance solution for New Zealand as well as Australia — covering Visa View checks, NZ work rights monitoring, and the same automated onboarding and audit trail capabilities available in the Australian product. For any trans-Tasman business, this is a significant differentiator: no other dedicated RTW platform comes close to matching this coverage across both markets. Its flexible pricing model — capped at $5 per check at onboarding and per temporary visa holder per month, with significant volume discounts — makes it accessible for businesses of all sizes, from a single-site café to a national labour hire firm.

Best for: Any Australian employer with temporary visa holders — hospitality, retail, labour hire, aged care, agriculture, NDIS, higher education.

Formerly known as CV Check and rebranded to Kinatico in October 2022, this ASX-listed company is one of Australia’s most established background screening providers. Conducting over 900,000 secure checks per year for more than 23,000 employers, Kinatico offers visa and Right To Work checks as part of a much broader credential verification and pre-employment screening suite.

The company operates two primary products relevant to RTW compliance: Kinatico CVCheck — the pre-employment background check service — and Cited, a real-time workforce compliance monitoring platform. Together, these cover the spectrum from initial hire screening through to ongoing credential management. Data is stored onshore and the company holds PBSA accreditation along with ISO-aligned security standards.

Where Kinatico shines is breadth: if your compliance obligations extend beyond work rights — police checks, licence verification, Working With Children checks, reference checks, and professional membership verification — it provides a single platform to manage all of them. However, for organisations whose primary need is automated RTW and ongoing visa monitoring specifically, the experience is less focused than a purpose-built tool.

Best for: Organisations needing a full background screening solution across police checks, licences, and work rights.

Sterling, now operating as a First Advantage company, is one of the world’s largest employment screening providers — and it offers a Right To Work verification service for Australian employers that connects directly to immigration authorities to confirm visa and passport status. For multinational businesses that need to run consistent screening programs across multiple jurisdictions, Sterling’s global footprint is genuinely valuable.

The Australian Right To Work product confirms whether a candidate is entitled to work, provides details of any visa limitations, and includes ongoing monitoring capabilities. Sterling’s strength is its enterprise-grade infrastructure and the ability to embed RTW checks — including continuous compliance monitoring — within a single global screening program spanning the UK, US, Asia-Pacific, and beyond. For a local or mid-market Australian business focused purely on RTW compliance, however, it is considerably more complex and expensive than necessary.

Best for: Multinationals operating across several countries who need unified global screening under one vendor.