Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An employer is--
(a) a person employing, or who usually employs, 1 or more employees, for the person or someone else; or
(b) for employees employed in a department of government--the chief executive of that department.
(2) The following persons are also employers--
(a) a person carrying on a calling in which employees are usually employed, even though for the time being employees are not employed in it;
(b) a person who is managing director, manager, secretary or member of the managing body (however called) of a corporation, partnership, firm or association of persons;
(c) if 4 or more persons are, or claim to be, partners working in association in a calling or business--the partnership firm constituted, or claimed to be constituted, by the persons;
(d) a group training organisation or labour hire agency that arranges for an employee (who is a party to a contract of service with the organisation or agency) to do work for someone else, even though the employee is working for the other person under an arrangement between the organisation or agency and the other person;
(e) for proceedings for an offence or for payment or recovery of amounts--a former employer;
(f) a person for whose calling or business an outworker works;
(g) a person declared to be an employer under section 275.
(3) In this section--
labour hire agency means an entity that conducts a business that includes the supply of services of employees to others.