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Gas Industry Act 2001
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239 Transferred employees
(1) A person who was an employee of VENCorp immediately before the transition day is to be regarded as—
(a) having been employed by AEMO with effect from the transition day; and
(b) having been employed by AEMO on the same terms and conditions as those that applied to the person, immediately before the transition day, as an employee of VENCorp; and
(c) having accrued an entitlement to benefits, in connection with that employment by AEMO, that is equivalent to the entitlement that the person had accrued, as an employee of VENCorp, immediately before the transition day.
(2) The service of a transferred employee as an employee of AEMO is to be regarded for all purposes as having been continuous with the service of the employee, immediately before the transition day, as an employee of VENCorp.
(3) A transferred employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other benefit by reason only of having ceased to be an employee of VENCorp because of this Part.
(4) Nothing in this section prevents—
(a) any terms and conditions of employment of a transferred employee from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the transition day; or
(b) a transferred employee from resigning or being dismissed at any time after the transition day in accordance with the then existing terms and conditions of his or her employment by AEMO.
S. 240 inserted by No. 23/2009 s. 34.