Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150:section:12:p23
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00150
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12 (pt 23/24)
Character Range: 114400–117255

leave means unpaid no safe job leave to which a national system employee is entitled under section 82A.
unpaid parental leave means unpaid parental leave to which a national system employee is entitled under section 70.
unpaid pre‑adoption leave means unpaid pre‑adoption leave to which a national system employee is entitled under section 85.
unpaid special parental leave means unpaid special parental leave to which a national system employee is entitled under section 80.
varying modern award minimum wages: see subsection 284(4).
Vice President means a Vice President of the FWC.
vocational placement means a placement that is:
 (a) undertaken with an employer for which a person is not entitled to be paid any remuneration; and
 (b) undertaken as a requirement of an education or training course; and
 (c) authorised under a law or an administrative arrangement of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
voluntary emergency management activity: see subsection 109(2).
Voluntary Small Business Wage Compliance Code means the Voluntary Small Business Wage Compliance Code declared under subsection 327B(1).
volunteer of a designated emergency management body: see subsection 195A(6).
voting request order: see subsections 240A(1), (2) and (4).
waters above the continental shelf means any part of the area in, on or over the continental shelf.
waterside worker has the meaning given by clause 1 of Schedule 2 to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 as in force immediately before the commencement of this section.
worker:
 (aa) in Part 3‑5A—see subsection 527D(2); and
 (a) in Part 6‑4B—see subsection 789FC(2); and
 (b) otherwise—has its ordinary meaning.
worker in a business or undertaking: see subsection 527D(3).
working day means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday.
workplace delegate: see subsection 350C(1).
workplace determination means:
 (b) an industrial action related workplace determination; or
 (c) an intractable bargaining workplace determination.
workplace instrument means an instrument that:
 (a) is made under, or recognised by, a workplace law; and
 (b) concerns the relationships between:
 (i) employers and employees; or
 (ii) digital labour platform operators and employee‑like workers; or
 (iii) road transport businesses and regulated road transport contractors; or
 (iv) persons in a road transport contractual chain.
workplace law means:
 (a) this Act; or
 (b) the Registered Organisations Act; or
 (c) the Independent Contractors Act 2006; or
 (d) any other law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that regulates the relationships between employers and employees (including by dealing with occupational health and safety matters).
workplace right: see subsection 341(1).
work value reasons: see subsection 157(2A).

Division 3—Definitions relating to the meanings of employee, employer etc.