59CFuture terms and conditions of transferred employees

59C Future terms and conditions of transferred employees

(1) Nothing in section 59B prevents—

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

(c) a transferred RC 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 RC employee as an employee of another relevant person 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 RC and with his or her service on or after that date as an employee of the other relevant person mentioned in subsection (1)(b).

(3) A transferred RC employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other benefit by reason only of having ceased to be an employee of a relevant person, being a payment or benefit in respect of a period of service as an officer or employee of the RC, 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 relevant person.

Pt 4
(Heading and ss 57–59) substituted as Pt 4
(Heading and s. 60) by No. 104/1997 s. 27, amended by Nos 104/1997 ss 28–30, 47/1998 ss 11, 12, substituted as Pt 4
(Heading and ss 60–80) by No. 98/1998 s. 15.