Your Defence Against Labour Supply Chain Risk Starts Here

OPRaaS safeguards leading organisations from supply chain risk - with expert-led training and consultancy services that remove the guesswork from compliance, making it clear, simple, and bulletproof.

Compliance isn’t a cost. It’s your shield.

Get Protected with OPRaaS

Safeguard your business. Protect your workforce. Be compliance confident.

Whether you’re an End-Hirer, Recruitment Agency or Umbrella, OPRaaS can provide you with the end-to-end solution your business needs to ensure compliance confidence across your labour supply chain and act as your critical safeguard against reputational, financial, and operational risks.

Transform and optimise your use of contingent labour: e.g. freelancers, temps, contractors, interims, and external consultants

  • Understand the importance of labour supply chain compliance & the risks

  • Ensure compliant & streamlined hiring processes

  • Reduce your risks of hiring temporary labour

  • Navigate the changing UK tax & employment legislation

  • Provide business continuity assurance

  • Protect your brand and reputation

  • Future-proof against legislative change

Why End-Hirers, Agencies & Umbrella Companies must reduce their supply chain risk

As seen during COVID and previous downturns:

  • Non-compliant umbrella companies and payroll fraud spike under financial pressure

  • Mini Umbrella Company (MUC) fraud, salary skimming, and false self-employment models reappear as agencies scramble to cut costs

  • Workers accept unclear deductions, just to stay afloat — leaving end-hirers vulnerable

Why this time is different……..the landscape has shifted — and the consequences are potentially criminal

The Spring Statement 2025 makes it clear: the government is targeting contingent worker supply chains.

Rachel Reeves has confirmed that the UK will:

  • Criminalise failure to disclose tax avoidance schemes under DOTAS

  • Introduce universal stop notices to shut down offending suppliers

  • Launch a whistleblower reward programme to expose supply chain abuse

  • Use AI-powered enforcement to detect risk patterns faster than ever

This marks a significant shift in HMRC’s approach—moving from civil to criminal enforcement in the staffing supply chain.

End-hirers, agencies, umbrellas — no one is shielded.

It’s a wake-up call for staffing agencies, umbrella companies, and their clients to audit their arrangements, stay transparent, and ensure full compliance with DOTAS and other tax rules.

The overarching message is clear: tax avoidance is no longer just a financial risk, it's a criminal one.

That’s why we build fully-configurable solutions to address your organisation’s unique challenges, providing specialised training, assurance and audit services for End Hirers, Agencies, and Umbrellas.

By partnering with us, or enrolling on the OPRaaS Labour Supply Chain Assurance (LSCA) Self-Certification Audit Course, your business can gain the insight, transparency and audit trail required to secure your supply chain and enhance your reputation as a demonstrably compliant provider.

Ensure full compliance with current and future tax and employment regulations, including Labour Supply Chain Assurance and Payroll Compliance.

Assist recruitment agencies in advising and supporting their clients to navigate the evolving tax and employment landscape compliantly as well as assuring their supply chain e.g. umbrellas companies.

Provide specialised solutions to umbrella companies, ensuring compliance and best practice.

How OPRaaS can help your organisation NOW!

OPRaaS’s NEW Self-Certification Course in Labour Supply Chain Assurance

The OPRaaS Labour Supply Chain Assurance (LSCA) Self-Certification Audit is a structured, online compliance solution for the entire temporary workforce supply chain:

  • Built around HMRC guidance, IR35, VAT fraud risk, Criminal Finances Act, and the upcoming Employment Rights Bill

  • Offers a compliance report, risk score, and pathway to improvement

  • Designed and developed by OPRaaS, the UK’s specialist in labour supply chain risk and compliance

This is not just training.

It’s an independent, audit-ready assurance tool that future-proofs your workforce compliance.

This practical, step-by-step, 11-module course is for HR, Tax, Procurement, Recruitment, and Payroll professionals, like you, to identify and mitigate these risks, ensuring a compliant, ethical, and transparent labour supply chain.

  • Non-compliance with PAYE, CIS, and VAT regulations can result in HMRC fines and audits.

  • Allegations of modern slavery, worker exploitation, or unethical practices can severely harm your brand

  • Under the Criminal Finances Act 2017, companies can be prosecuted for failing to prevent tax evasion.

  • Poor supplier oversight can result in legal battles, workforce instability, and business losses.

Supporting & training UK client partners since 2019

Pretium Resourcing has engaged OPRaaS as its supply chain compliance partner to ensure that Pretium’s end clients are working with compliant contingent workers and the end-to-end supply chain is compliant with HMRC legislation (IR35, Criminal Finance act, Modern Slavery etc) to mitigate risk and ensure their supply chain is as robust as it can be.

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