Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 42

In this part--

continuous service of an employee means--

(a) in section 50--the period of continuous service the employee is taken to have had with an employer under section 50(4); and

(b) elsewhere--the employee's continuous service with the same employer (whether wholly in the State, or partly in and partly outside the State).

owner of a meat works includes a person who carries on the business of the works.

period between seasons includes the period between--

(a) the end of 1 season and the start of the next season; and

(b) for a particular employee--the day the employee stops employment in 1 season and the day the employee starts employment in the next season.

season means a period (whether falling completely in 1 calendar year or partly in 1 calendar year and partly in the next calendar year) when--

(a) for the sugar industry--

(i) sugar cane is delivered to, and crushed at, a sugar mill; or

(ii) sugar cane is harvested, or farm work is performed, in the sugar industry; or

(b) for a meat works--stock are delivered to, and slaughtered at, the works.