Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) For the purpose of
this Act the employment of an employee by the employer by whom he is employed
on the coming into operation of this Act shall, subject to the provisions of
this section and to those of section 6, be deemed to have commenced on
the day on which the employee was first employed by that employer, but in the
calculation of the employee’s entitlement to long service leave under
this Act not more than 20 years’ continuous employment before the
coming into operation of this Act shall be counted.
(2) Any leave, in the
nature of long service leave or, as the case may be, payment in lieu thereof,
granted, whether before or after the coming into operation of this Act, under
any long service leave scheme and irrespective of this Act to an employee in
respect of any period of continuous employment with his employer, shall be
taken into account in the calculation of the employee’s entitlement to
long service leave under this Act as if it were long service leave taken under
this Act, or, as the case may be, payment in lieu of long service leave under
this Act and to be satisfaction to the extent thereof of any entitlement of
the employee under this Act.
(3) The entitlement to
leave under this Act shall be in substitution for and satisfaction of any long
service leave to which the employee may be entitled in respect of employment
of the employee by the employer.
[Section 7 amended by No. 37 of 1964
s. 4.]