59Future terms and conditions of transferred employees

59 Future terms and conditions of transferred employees

(1) Nothing in section 58 prevents—

(a) any of the terms and conditions of employment of a transferred PTC employee from being altered by or under any law, award or agreement with effect from any time after the relevant date; or

(b) a transferred PTC employee from transferring to the employment of another rail corporation at any time within 6 months after the relevant date on terms and conditions agreed to by the employee and that other rail corporation; or

(c) a transferred PTC employee from resigning or being dismissed at any time after the relevant date in accordance with the then existing terms and conditions of his or her employment by the new employer.

(2) The service of a transferred PTC employee as an employee of another rail corporation to which he or she transfers as mentioned in subsection (1)(b) is to be regarded for all purposes as having been continuous with the service of the employee, immediately before the relevant date, as an officer or employee of the PTC and with his or her service on or after that date as an employee of the other rail corporation mentioned in subsection (1)(b).

(3) A transferred PTC employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other benefit by reason only of having ceased to be an employee of a rail corporation, being a payment or benefit in respect of a period of service as an officer or employee of the PTC, if he or she has received a payment or other benefit in respect of that period by reason of having ceased to be an employee of another rail corporation.

S. 59A inserted by No. 98/1998 s. 14.