Expanded Definition Of 'Employee'

The definition of ‘employee’ has been expanded to mean any person who:

• Works under a contract of employment; and includes
• A fixed-term employee
• A temporary worker

Moreover, the 2005 Act also makes an ‘employer’ responsible for any person who works under his ‘control and direction’ (e.g. a borrowed worker).

In effect, any worker – whether full or part-time, permanent or temporary, and regardless of any employment or contractual arrangement they may have – has both rights and responsibilities under the Act.