Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 70

(1) This section applies if--

(a) an employee, while employed with the employer, starts an apprenticeship or traineeship; or

(b) the employer--

(i) continues to employ an apprentice or trainee (the employee) on the completion of the apprenticeship or traineeship; or

(ii) re-employs the employee within 3 months after completion of the employee's apprenticeship or traineeship.

(2) The period of the apprenticeship or traineeship does not break the employee's continuity of service.