Principle 1 – Respect for Laws
a) Our staff must comply with all relevant legislation, statutory and non-statutory requirements and official guidance and any future amendments to such requirements during the course of providing their services to others.

Principle 2 – Respect for Honesty and Transparency
a) Our staff will serve our clients, candidates and employees faithfully, with integrity and professional responsibility..
b) In the course of representing a work seeker or client, a member shall not knowingly make a false or inaccurate statement, fail to disclose a material fact, or make a representation as to future matters without having reasonable grounds for making it.
c) Our staff must adhere to principles of truth in advertising and will only advertise positions, through any medium, for which they have documented permission to recruit.
d) All fees, charges and services provided must be explicitly and fully disclosed to clients prior to the acceptance of an assignment, or prior to any work being undertaken for a client.
e) Our staff should document all key stages of the recruitment process in line with relevant legislation and good practice guidance.

Principle 3 – Respect for Work Relationships
a) Our staff will not undertake actions that may unfairly or unlawfully jeopardize a work seeker’s employment.
b) Our staff will not undertake actions that may unfairly or unlawfully interfere in work relationships established by others.
c) Our staff will not attempt unfairly or unlawfully to prevent a work seeker from seeking work from other sources.
d) Our staff will, in their dealings with members in other recruitment agencies, treat them with respect and aim to work in a fair and open competitive environment.
e) Our staff will take all reasonable steps to provide clients with accurate information on each candidate's employment qualifications and experience; and will only present those candidates who have given us authorization to represent their application for employment.
f) Our staff will derive income only from clients and make no direct or indirect charges to candidates or employees unless specified by a license.

Principle 4 – Respect for Diversity
a) Our staff should adhere to the spirit of all applicable human rights, employment laws and regulations and will treat work seekers, clients and others without prejudice or unjustified discrimination. Our staff should not act on an instruction from a client that is discriminatory and should, wherever possible, provide guidance to clients in respect of good diversity practice.
b) Our staff and their staff will treat all work seekers and clients with dignity and respect and aim to provide equity of employment opportunities based on objective business related criteria.
c) Our staff should establish working practices that safeguard against unlawful or unethical discrimination in the operation of their business.

Principle 5 – Respect for Safety
a) Our staff will act diligently in assessing risks to work seekers and clients and will not knowingly put at risk candidates, clients or others.
b) Our staff will inform work seekers whenever they have reason to believe that an engagement may cause a risk to health and safety.

Principle 6 – Respect for Professional Knowledge
a) Our staff will work diligently to develop and maintain a satisfactory level of relevant and current professional knowledge.
b) Our staff will ensure that their staffs are adequately trained and skilled to undertake their responsibilities in recruitment practice.

Principle 7 – Respect for Certainty of Engagement
a) Our staff must supply work seekers with full details of the work, conditions of employment, nature of the work to be undertaken, rates of pay, method and frequency of payment, and pay arrangements in accordance with requirements of current legislation.
b) Our staff will ensure that any variation to the engagement can only occur with prior notification and agreement of the worker.

Principle 8 – Respect for Prompt and Accurate Payment
a) Our staff will pay promptly and accurately any wages and benefits due in accordance with any agreed terms and legal requirements.
b) Our staff should not penalize temporary/contract workers, for example for having been late or failed to attend part or all of an assignment or for poor performance, by making deductions from pay due for time that they have actually worked.
c) Our staff will not take on assignments that could result in their inability to pay temporary/contract workers.

Principle 9 – Respect for Ethical International Recruitment
a) Our staff must supply all overseas work seekers with the same level of information as set out and implied in Principle 7. In addition, information provided should include details of the likely cost of living in the area the prospective hirer is situated, the likely length of the job in question and the state of the employment market in the field they are being recruited into. All information must be provided at no cost to the work seeker.
b) Our staff must ensure that in relation to overseas recruitment they abide by all relevant legislation and Home Office guidelines and provide all relevant and applicable information to work seekers, clients and others.
c) Our staff recruiting from outside Lebanon must not use overseas agents, who charge for their services, unless that is the legal and normal custom and practice sanctioned by the government of the country of origin.
In addition, Our staff must make all reasonable efforts to ascertain such information about any agents used and should be able to demonstrate that they have done so.
d) Our staff should observe the highest principles of social responsibility, integrity, professionalism, equity and fair practice in their dealings with all overseas work seekers.

Principle 10 – Respect for Confidentiality and Privacy
a) Our staff must observe the highest principles of integrity, professionalism, equity and fair practice to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of candidate and client information and should respect the confidentiality of records in accordance with the law and good business practice.
b) Our staff and their staff must ensure that permission has been obtained and documented before disclosing, displaying, submitting or seeking confidential or personal information.