EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 92
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 92
92 . Protection of employment rights
(1) For the purpose of
calculating the entitlement of an employee to long service leave, sick leave,
recreational leave or other benefits to which the employee is entitled, the
continuity of service of the employee is to be taken not to have been broken
only by the employee’s absence from the employment because the employee
was carrying out an emergency management response.
(2) An employee who is
absent from the employee’s employment because the employee is carrying
out an emergency management response is entitled to be paid by the
person’s employer remuneration for the period of the employee’s
absence calculated at the employee’s ordinary rate of remuneration,
determined in accordance with the regulations, on the time that the employee
would ordinarily have worked had the employee worked his or her scheduled work
time.