Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

WORKPLACE PRIVACY ACT 2011 - SECT 8

    (1)     In this Act:

"employer", of a worker—

        (a)     includes—

              (i)         a person who engages the worker to carry out work in the person's business or undertaking; and

              (ii)     if the person who engages the worker is a corporation—a related body corporate of the corporation; but

        (b)     does not include a person (the "householder") who engages someone else to perform domestic duties at the premises where the householder lives.

Examples—employer

1     principal contractor is an employer of a subcontractor

2     host organisation is an employer of a labour hire worker

    (2)     In this section:

"related body corporate"—see the Corporations Act

, section 9.