Reconsidering the Notion of Employer in the Era of the Fissured Workplace : Traversing the Legislative Landscape in Australia

This chapter begins by exploring the available evidence on the extent to which Australian workplaces have become fissured. This chapter then provides an overview of the central statutory responses in the respective regulatory spheres of labor, work health and safety, and competition and consumer protection. In reviewing this legislative landscape, this chapter reveals that while Australian statutes are innovative and inclusive in some respects, critical regulatory gaps remain. This can be linked, at least in part, to the way in which these statutory regimes conceptualize the principal subject and object of the relevant regulation