With this setting, you decide whether only contractors (companies you hire directly) need to be assessed, or also the subcontractors further down the chain.
Why would you use it?
Do you want less assessment work, and do you trust your contractors to check their own chain? Then choose Yes. If you want to check the whole chain yourself, choose No.
Applies to
Organisation level
Project level
You can find this setting in the project settings, on the Fair tab, under the heading General > Assessments. At organisation level, you can find it in the Organisation settings, under Default organisation-level settings. Choose Change these settings there.
If you choose Default setting at project level, the project follows the organisation's setting. You can see which value that is next to Default setting.
Options
Yes (default setting)
All assessments are still created, but company assessments for subcontractors that are not contractors do not need to be completed. They do not block registration at the work location.
Exceptions:
If such an assessment is carried out anyway and rejected, it works like a normal rejected assessment
Assessments for workers are still required
If Assess all self-employed workers is switched on, self-employed workers in the chain are still assessed
Workers of subcontractors that are not contractors do not get an SNA (Foundation for Standards Compliance Labour) check
With this option, the Attention required overview only shows the company assessments of contractors and all assessments of workers.
➕ Less assessment work
➖ You have less insight into the companies further down the chain
➖ The project scores lower on the Fair component
No
Assessments work as normal. Subcontractors further down the chain must also be assessed before their workers can register at the work location. Other settings, such as the check level, still apply.
➕ You check the whole chain
➖ More assessment work