Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Through you, Mr Temporary Chairman Bartlett, I thank the minister for outlining those amendments, and I am very pleased to see that the government has included them. The issue was raised during the inquiry and, as I think I have said in this place before, there is and has been in the past pretty strong cross-party support to ensure outworker protections. I have a specific question. I want to clarify something in amendment (15). In subclause (3) it is stated that an outworker means an employee. I have heard the minister say ‘employee’ and ‘contractor’, yet the word ‘contractor’ does not appear there. I want to ensure that this does pick up contractors. As we all know, a large part of this work is actually done by people employed on contracts and, in fact, subcontractors for some contracts.