204Existing senior managers—transitional arrangements

204 Existing senior managers—transitional arrangements

204 Existing senior managers—transitional arrangements

(1) On the commencement of the new senior executive provisions, an existing senior manager is taken to be employed under those provisions as a Transport Service senior manager in the same kind of employment in which the person was employed as an existing senior manager.

(2) The employment of any such senior manager under the new senior executive provisions is subject to the following—

(a) the person has a remuneration package that is equivalent to the person’s remuneration package under the former senior executive provisions,

(b) any such remuneration package may be subsequently increased in accordance with the arrangements in force under the former senior executive provisions,

(c) if the person was employed under the former senior executive provisions at a remuneration level equivalent to any person employed as a Transport Service senior executive under the new senior executive provisions, the person may, despite section 68J(1), continue to be paid remuneration at the senior executive level,

(d) the person is not required to enter into a contract of employment under the new senior executive provisions and the person’s contract of employment under the former senior executive provisions continues to apply,

(e) any such existing contract of employment may be extended or renewed, or varied, in accordance with the former senior executive provisions.

(3) Subclause (2) ceases to apply in relation to a Transport Service senior manager if the manager is subsequently employed in a role that has a remuneration level exceeding the remuneration paid to the manager immediately before being employed in the new role.