WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 586 Interaction rules

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 586

Transmitted agreement

             (1)  This section applies if subsection 585(1) applies to a collective agreement (the transmitted collective agreement ).

Existing collective agreement

             (2)  If:

                     (a)  the new employer is bound by a collective agreement (the existing collective agreement ) immediately before the time of transmission; and

                     (b)  a person is a transferring employee in relation to the transmitted collective agreement; and

                     (c)  the existing collective agreement would, but for this subsection, apply, according to its terms, to the transferring employee when the transferring employee becomes employed by the new employer;

the existing collective agreement does not apply to the transferring employee.

             (3)  Subsection (2) ceases to apply at the end of the transmission period.