Electricity Regulation 2006

The service of a GOE industry employee with a State electricity entity (the employer) who has been employed more than once by 1 or more State electricity entities over a period is continuous service with the employer even though—

the employment is broken; or

any of the employment is not full-time employment; or

the employee is employed by the entity or entities under 2 or more employment contracts; or

the employee would, apart from this section, be taken to be engaged in casual employment; or

the employee has engaged in other employment during the period.

However, the continuous service ends if the employment is broken by more than 3 months between the end of 1 employment contract and the start of the next employment contract.

In working out the length of a the employee’s continuous service—

service by the employee before 23 June 1990 must not be taken into account; and

subject to subsection (2), a period when the employee was not employed by the entity or entities must be taken into account.