Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person is an employer if—
(a) the person conducts a business or undertaking; and
(b) in the conduct of the business or undertaking, the person engages someone else to do work, other than under a contract for services, for or at the direction of the person.
(2) For this section, a person engages someone else to do work even though the person engaged works on a voluntary basis.
(3) For an apprentice or trainee who is employed by a group training organisation, the apprentice's or trainee's employer is—
(a) when the apprentice or trainee is engaged to do work for a host employer—the host employer; or
(b) otherwise—the group training organisation.
(4) In this section—
group training organisation means a group training organisation under the Training and Employment Act.
host employer means a person who contracts with a group training organisation for the training of apprentices and trainees.