Employment status of workers
The people working in your business can fall under a range of categories of employment. Each carries a different set of obligations for you as the employer and for the people who work for you. The categories are:
- full-time employees
- part-time employees
- casual employees
- probationary employees
- fixed term employees.
It's important to clearly distinguish if your workers are employees or independent contractors, so that you can properly determine the wages and other employment conditions of your workers.
What to do...
- Go to the Tax Office website for help with determining whether your workers are contractors or employees.
- Read the Tax Office's information on your employer obligations for apprentices.
- See our topic on Independent contractors.
- Find out about recruiting and employing staff in your state or territory.
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This content is supplied to Flying Solo via business.gov.au,
the Australian Government's principal website for business information and resources.
