Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1999 - SECT 42

In this part—

continuous service of an employee means—

(a) in section 50—the period of continuous service the employee is taken to have had with an employer under section 50(4); and

(b) elsewhere—the employee's continuous service with the same employer (whether wholly in the State, or partly in and partly outside the State).

owner of a meat works includes a person who carries on the business of the works.

period between seasons includes the period between—

(a) the end of 1 season and the start of the next season; and

(b) for a particular employee—the day the employee stops employment in 1 season and the day the employee starts employment in the next season.

season means a period (whether falling completely in 1 calendar year or partly in 1 calendar year and partly in the next calendar year) when—

(a) for the sugar industry—

(i) sugar cane is delivered to, and crushed at, a sugar mill; or

(ii) sugar cane is harvested, or farm work is performed, in the sugar industry; or

(b) for a meat works—stock are delivered to, and slaughtered at, the works.