Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where the Speaker is satisfied that the services of a person, being an officer of or employee in the parliamentary service, can no longer be gainfully utilised in the position held by the person because the position has become redundant, and the Speaker is satisfied that--
(a) it is not practicable to retrain or redeploy that person; and
(b) the redundancy arrangements approved by the Speaker have been complied with in relation to that person;
the Speaker may terminate the services of that person by way of retrenchment in accordance with those redundancy arrangements.
(2) Redundancy arrangements for the time being approved by the Speaker for the purposes of subsection (1) shall be comparable to the redundancy arrangements for the time being approved--
(a) in the case of officers--by the Governor in Council under the Public Service Act 1996 in relation to officers of the public service who have similar duties and responsibilities;
(b) in the case of employees--by the industrial commission in relation to employees of the Crown who have similar duties and responsibilities.