Legal Definitions - daywork

Daywork refers to a form of temporaryemployment where an individual is hired for a very short duration, typically for a single day or a few days, to perform specific tasks. This arrangement is characterized by its transient nature, often without a formal long-term contract or the expectation of ongoing employment.

Here are some examples to illustrate the concept of daywork:

• Imagine a local catering company preparing for a large wedding reception. They need extra servers and kitchen assistants for just one busy Saturday. Instead of hiring permanent staff, they bring in several individuals specifically for that day's event. These individuals are engaged in daywork because their employment is limited to the duration of that single event.

• Consider a small business whose regular administrative assistant is unexpectedly out sick for three days. To ensure urgent tasks like mail sorting and phone answering are covered, the business hires a temporary worker through an agency to fill in for those three days. This arrangement constitutes daywork as the worker's engagement is explicitly short-term to cover a brief absence.

• A film production crew is shooting a scene that requires a large crowd of extras for a specific background shot. They recruit dozens of people to appear in the scene for just one day of filming. These extras are performing daywork, as their role and compensation are tied solely to that single day's shoot, with no expectation of further involvement in the production.