Other Groups Of 'Employees'

Section 5 (6) of the Act provides the Minister for Workplace Relations and Small Business with authority to gazette groups of people, undertaking certain acts, to be automatically covered by the SRC Act as 'employees'.

They include:

  • certain volunteer project workers and bush fire fighters;

  • those undertaking Commonwealth employment placement schemes (rehabilitees); and

  • Defence Force cadets.

It is important to realise that compensation coverage relates only to the acts these employees are performing.

Example

A rehabilitee with the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service would only be covered while performing acts in connection with his or her rehabilitation, including travelling to and from the rehabilitation site.

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