Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I turn now to the definition of 'employment'. We had asked some of these questions in the committee stage of the Senate inquiry but hadn't been able to get answers to them, so I want to go through them again. If and when the bill is passed, how many different definitions of 'employee' will there be across Commonwealth, state and territory acts? What is a person who was previously an independent contractor who becomes an employee under the legislation? This is the question that's being asked: does that mean that they are treated as an employee under tax legislation, and could it be possible that someone is an employee for the purpose of the Fair Work Act but a contractor under the tax act?