(1) In this Act -

"Act of 2015" means the Workplace Relations Act 2015;

"contract of employment" means, subject to subsection (2) - (a) a contract of service or apprenticeship, or (b) any other contract whereby an individual agrees with another person, who is carrying on the business of an employment agency (within the meaning of the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012), and is acting in the course of that business, to do or perform personally any work or service for another person (whether or not that other person is a party to the contract), whether the contract is express or implied and, if express, whether it is oral or in writing;

"employee" means a person who has entered into or works (or, where the employment has ceased, entered into or worked) under a contract of employment and references, in relation to an employer, to an employee, shall be construed as references to an employee employed by that employer;