13Temporary employees employed under contract

13 Temporary employees employed under contract

(1) Where: (a) a person who is a temporary employee is employed under a contract; and (b) the person requests CSC to direct, under this section, that he or she be treated as an eligible employee for the purposes of this Act; CSC may direct that the person is an eligible employee for the purposes of this Act. (2) A direction under subsection (1) in relation to a person who is employed under a contract has effect from: (a) where the person has been employed under that contract for longer than one year—the day of the direction; or (b) in any other case—the day specified in the direction, which may be a day earlier than the day on which the direction is given but not earlier than the day on which the person commenced to be employed under that contract.