12Certain affected employees to receive income supplementation

12 Certain affected employees to receive income supplementation

(1) Subject to this section, the Parliament intends that, if the salary of an affected employee is reduced as a result of accepting an offer of continuing employment made by the State or an authority of the State, the Commonwealth should pay income supplementation to the affected employee. (2) The Parliament intends that the Commonwealth should not pay income supplementation to an affected employee in respect of a time after the affected employee has stopped being in acceptable continuing employment. (3) Subject to the intention expressed in subsection (2), the Parliament intends that the Commonwealth should be able to determine the amount of income supplementation that is payable to an affected employee and the period during which it is payable. (4) The Parliament intends that the Commonwealth should be able to determine a period, not exceeding 6 months, as the minimum period before the staff transfer day during which an affected employee must have been an officer or employee in order to be entitled to be paid income supplementation. (5) In this section:

salary:

(a) includes:
(i) an allowance payable to a person because the person is temporarily performing the duties of an office to which he or she has not been appointed, transferred or promoted; and
(ii) shift penalty payments; and
(iii) restricted duties adjustment payments; but
(b) does not include:
(i) any other allowance; or
(ii) fringe benefits within the meaning of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986.