Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) Any person
who —
(a) for
reward follows, either wholly or from time to time or part time, the calling
of an agent for procuring engagements for persons seeking to be employed, or
for procuring employees for persons seeking to employ such persons; or
(b)
whether or not for reward, places persons in employment and levies from either
the employee or the employer an entrance fee, a periodical contribution or any
other charge for his services in effecting the placement,
is deemed for the
purposes of this Act to be carrying on the business of an employment
agent.
(2) A newspaper or
other publication not published wholly or mainly for the purpose of acting as
intermediary between persons seeking employment and prospective employers
shall not be deemed to be carrying on the business of an employment agent.
(3) A person who, as
principal, is the employer responsible for the payment of wages or other
lawful obligations to an employee and who, as such employer, provides to other
persons the services of his employees to perform tasks of a temporary nature
on the basis of predetermined rates agreed between those other persons and
himself as such employer, no fee or expense being incurred by the employee in
or in relation to the performance of such tasks, shall not be deemed by reason
only of that fact to be an employment agent.
[ 6. Omitted under the Reprints Act 1984
s. 7(4)(e).]