Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AIRPORTS (TRANSITIONAL) ACT 1996 No. 36 of 1996 - SECT 59

(1) A person who is a transferred employee is taken:

   (a)  to have been engaged by the company concerned on the same terms and
        conditions as those that applied to the person, immediately before the
        employee's transfer time, as an employee of the FAC; and

   (b)  to have accrued an entitlement to benefits, in connection with that
        engagement by the company concerned, that is equivalent to the
        entitlement that the person had accrued, as an employee of the FAC,
        immediately before the employee's transfer time.

(2) The service of a transferred employee as an employee of the company
concerned is taken, for all purposes, to have been continuous with the service
of the employee, immediately before the employee's transfer time, as an
employee of the FAC.

(3) A transferred employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other
benefit merely because he or she stopped being an employee of the FAC as a
result of this Part.

(4) A reference in paragraph (1)(a) to terms and conditions is a reference to
terms and conditions that are set out in:

   (a)  a written contract of employment; or

   (b)  an award (as defined by section 4 of the Industrial Relations  Act
        1988 ).

(5) This section has effect subject to this Part.