LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 354I Limitations on transfer of work base of non-senior staff

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 354I

354I Limitations on transfer of work base of non-senior staff

(1) This section applies, where a staff transfer occurs, to--

(a) a transferred staff member, and

(b) in the case of a boundary alteration--

(i) a remaining staff member of the transferor council, and

(ii) an existing staff member of the transferee council,

other than a senior staff member.

(2) The staff member must not be required by the council employing the staff member to be based within 3 years after the transfer day at a work base located--

(a) in a case where the staff member is a transferred staff member--outside the boundaries of the area of his or her former council as they existed immediately before the transfer day, or

(b) in a case where the staff member is a remaining staff member of the transferor council--outside the boundaries of the area of the transferor council as they existed immediately before the transfer day, or

(c) in a case where the staff member is an existing staff member of the transferee council--outside the boundaries of the area of the transferee council as they existed immediately before the transfer day,

unless the staff member gives his or her written consent to the change of work base or such a requirement would not cause the staff member to suffer unreasonable hardship because of the distance required to travel to the proposed work base.