Employment disputes run on specifics: which authority actually handles your situation, which law applies in your country, and where a report or complaint actually goes. These are the official sources for each — organized by function, not blended together.
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US — Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
What: The federal agency enforcing workplace discrimination law in the US. Verified official domain is eeoc.gov specifically — eeoc.com and similar look-alike domains are not official.
FTC — Job Scam Resources
What: The FTC's consumer-facing guidance on identifying and avoiding job scams, mystery shopper scams, and work-from-home fraud.
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
What: The FBI's official portal for reporting internet-facilitated crime, including job scams involving fraudulent payment requests or identity theft.
The official statement of what employment rights actually exist in each region — not a complaint portal (see Section 9 for that).
Australia — Fair Work Commission
What: Australia's national workplace relations tribunal — awards, agreements, and dispute resolution.
UK — Employment Rights (GOV.UK)
What: The UK government's hub for employment rights, contracts, pay, and workplace entitlements.
Acas (UK)
What: Free, impartial advice on UK employment rights and workplace disputes, and the body that runs early conciliation before an Employment Tribunal claim.
European Labour Authority (ELA)
What: The EU body supporting fair labour mobility across member states and coordinating enforcement of EU labour rights rules.
Where to actually report a fake job offer, by region — plus the Kibbo tools built for exactly this.
US — FTC ReportFraud
What: The FTC's official fraud reporting portal, including job and employment scams.
Australia — Scamwatch
What: The ACCC's official scam reporting and awareness site, including job and employment scam categories.
UK — Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud)
What: The UK's national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, run by the City of London Police.
Europol
What: Europol coordinates cross-border EU law enforcement, including organised online fraud networks that run job scams across multiple member states.
Use this evidence for:
Job Offer Scam Checklist — spot it and know what to do next →
Job Scam Incident Report — document it before the posting disappears →
Official sources on what a background check can and can't include, by region.
UK — Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
What: The UK body issuing criminal record checks for employment — Basic, Standard, and Enhanced levels, each with different eligibility rules.
Australia — National Police Checks
What: The AFP's official guidance on national police checks used for employment purposes in Australia.
US — FCRA Background Check Rights
What: The FTC's guidance on employer obligations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when using background checks — disclosure, consent, and adverse-action notice requirements.
Use this before your check:
Background Check Preparation Checklist →
Who regulates what happens to your personal data during and after a job application, by region.
UK — Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
What: The UK's independent data protection regulator, enforcing UK GDPR — including how employers and recruiters handle candidate and employee data.
Australia — Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)
What: Australia's privacy regulator, enforcing the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles.
European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
What: The EU body ensuring consistent GDPR application across member states.
National EU Data Protection Authorities
What: The full list of national data protection authorities across EU/EEA member states — use this to find your specific country's regulator.
Use this for:
GDPR Job Application Privacy Checklist →
Employment Data Access Request — generate a formal letter →
Official minimum wage and pay-transparency information, by region.
UK — National Minimum Wage
What: Current UK minimum wage rates by age band, and how they're enforced.
Australia — Fair Work Pay Calculator
What: The official calculator for minimum pay rates, penalty rates, and allowances under Australian awards.
EU — Pay Transparency Directive
What: The EU directive strengthening equal pay enforcement through pay transparency obligations. Member state transposition is still in progress — check your specific country's implementation status before assuming the full directive already applies domestically.
Use this to draft a claim:
Unpaid Wage & Compensation Demand Letter — generate a formal letter →
Official guidance specific to gig and platform work, by region.
EU — Platform Work Directive
What: The EU directive establishing a rebuttable presumption of employment for platform workers and rules on algorithmic management. Member states have until December 2026 to transpose it — it is not yet uniformly in force across the EU.
Use this to check your numbers:
Gig Worker Earnings Checklist →
Verify a recruitment or relocation agency independently before you pay a fee or share personal documents.
UK — Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Inspectorate
What: The UK body enforcing the law that recruitment agencies cannot charge work-seekers a fee for finding them work.
EURES — EU Cross-Border Employment Network
What: The official EU network for cross-border job mobility, including verified employer listings for jobs in other EU member states.
Australia — Registered Migration Agents
What: Verify whether a migration agent handling a relocation-adjacent job offer is actually registered before paying them anything.
Before you send your CV or ID to any of these:
Before Sending Your CV to a Third Party Checklist →
Where to actually file a complaint, by region — distinct from Section 2's general rights information.
US — EEOC Charge Filing
What: The EEOC's official process and deadlines for filing a workplace discrimination charge — generally the required first step before a discrimination lawsuit in the US.
UK — Employment Tribunal
What: How to bring a claim to an Employment Tribunal in the UK, including the mandatory Acas early conciliation step and time limits.
Australia — Fair Work Commission Complaints
What: The Fair Work Commission's portal for lodging an unfair dismissal claim, general protections dispute, or other workplace application.
EU — European Labour Authority
What: For cross-border EU employment disputes, the ELA's general portal — a dedicated complaints-routing subpage could not be verified live, so this links to the main site rather than a guessed URL.
Reference texts for the underlying laws cited elsewhere in this block — not a complaint portal.
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA, US)
What: The US federal law governing background check accuracy, disclosure, and adverse-action notice requirements.
Employment Rights Act 1996 (UK)
What: The core UK statute covering unfair dismissal, written statements of employment particulars, notice periods, and redundancy rights.
Fair Work Act 2009 (Australia)
What: Australia's primary workplace relations statute — the National Employment Standards, unfair dismissal, and general protections all derive from this Act.
GDPR (EU)
What: The regulation underlying every EU/UK employment data-privacy right referenced in this block, including candidate CV data and employee records.
EU Pay Transparency Directive
What: Same directive referenced in Section 6 — included here for a single reference list of the block's underlying laws.
EU Platform Work Directive
What: Same directive referenced in Section 7 — included here for a single reference list of the block's underlying laws.