The new definition of the “casual employee”: The details, the flaws and the likely outcome Trent Hancock On December 9, 2020, the federal government introduced the long-awaited Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 into the House of Representatives. The bill was introduced after what Minister for Industrial Relations Christian Porter described as “extensive consultation with employer and employee groups”, who spent more than 150 hours deliberating five key areas of industrial relations. One of those key areas, and perhaps the most controversial, was the uncertainty about casual employment and how a casual worker was defined. In order to remove this uncertainty, the bill introduces, for the first time, a statutory definition of the “casual employee”, which has become increasingly contentious following the recent decisions of