New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 68

68 Preservation of leave and other entitlements for previous service

(1) Continuous service of a transferred staff member with any transport authority is taken, for all purposes, as service with the transport authority that is the staff member’s current employer.

(2) This section applies, without limiting its operation, for the purpose of the accrual of leave with the current employer and for the purpose of any entitlements to redundancy payments from the current employer.

(3) In particular, a transferred staff member retains, on being transferred under this Division, any rights to annual leave, long service leave and sick leave accrued in the staff member’s previous employment with a transport authority.

(4) A transferred staff member’s entitlement to any such leave is to be calculated:

(a) for the part of any period during which that leave accrued or was accruing that occurred before the day of transfer-at the rate for the time being applicable to the staff member before that day, and

(b) for the part of the period that occurred after the day of transfer-at the rate for the time being applicable to the staff member after that day.