Human rights
Human rights
SEEK develops and implements strategies to prevent exploitative recruitment and modern slavery on SEEK’s employment platforms and to identify and manage risks in SEEK’s supply chains.
For more information, refer to SEEK's FY2025 Modern Slavery Statement.
Fair hiring
SEEK’s fair hiring purpose is to improve working lives by preventing exploitative recruitment and modern slavery.
As a leader in employment marketplaces across Asia Pacific, SEEK has an important role to play in eliminating unfair hiring practices.
SEEK’s fair hiring program aims to ensure that SEEK operates its platform in a manner that supports ethical recruitment and includes job ads that are free from:
illegitimate or illegal jobs, for example roles at scamming call centres;
deceptive recruitment leading to modern slavery;
unethical or unlawful charges or placement fees where the worker pays for a job; and
discriminatory language or requirements.
Modern slavery
SEEK’s approach to assessing and addressing modern slavery risk aligns with the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The technology and the employment marketplaces SEEK operates in expose the business to a unique set of human rights risks; SEEK’s attention is directed to those areas that present the most risk. This is achieved through a range of policies and processes aimed at prevention, mitigation and remediation of risks to human rights.
Supply chains
SEEK applies a Supply Chain Risk Framework across its global operations to identify and address modern slavery risk within its supply chain. This involves a three-step approach to: analyse suppliers for inherent modern slavery risk; assess the operations and governance of suppliers with elevated risk; and work with suppliers to take remedial action when modern slavery incidents or inherent risks are identified.