Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A transferred employee is a person who becomes an employee of an employer (the new employer) because of the transfer of a calling to the new employer from another employer (the former employer).
(2) Even if a person is dismissed by the former employer before the transfer of a calling, the person is taken to be a transferred employee if--
(a) the person is employed by the new employer after the transfer; and
(b) the employee--
(i) was dismissed by the former employer within 1 month immediately before the transfer; and
(ii) is re-employed by the new employer within 3 months after the dismissal.
(3) The transfer of the calling is taken not to break the transferred employee's continuity of service.
(4) A period of service with the former employer (including service before the commencement of this section) is taken to be a period of service with the new employer.
(4A) In relation to the transfer, the transferred employee is not an employee to whom chapter 3, part 4, division 1AA applies, unless an instrument mentioned in section 85A(1) provides otherwise.
(5) In this section--
dismissed includes stood down.