33   Meaning of “engagement period”

(1)  An engagement period, for a worker who is an employee, is a period that:

(a)  starts on the day the person is engaged by an employer as a worker, and

(b)  stops on the day the person stops being engaged by an employer as a worker.

(2)  For the purposes of subsection (1), it is not relevant whether the employer who engages the person as a worker is the employer who stops engaging the person as a worker.

(3)  An engagement period, for a worker who is a contractor, is a period that:

(a)  starts on the day the person performs cleaning work as a contractor in the contract cleaning industry, and

(b)  stops on the day the person stops performing cleaning work as a contractor in the contract cleaning industry.

(4)  An engagement period, for a worker, is also taken to include any day that the person who is or was a worker did not perform cleaning work:

(a)  because of incapacity for an injury for which the worker is entitled to compensation under the Workers Compensation Act 1987, or

(b)  if the worker is an employee—because the worker had been dismissed by the person’s employer to ensure that the person did not take long service leave during the worker’s employment.