Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The service of an employee (a casual employee) who is employed more than once by the same employer over a period is continuous service with the employer even though—
(a) the employment is broken; or
(b) any of the employment is not full-time employment; or
(c) the employee is employed by the employer under 2 or more employment contracts; or
(d) the employee would, apart from this section, be taken to be engaged in casual employment; or
(e) the employee has engaged in other employment during the period.
(2) 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.
(3) In working out the length of an employee's continuous service—
(a) the following service must not be taken into account—
(i) service by the employee before 23 June 1990;
(ii) if the employee only obtained the entitlement because of the enactment of the repealed Industrial Relations Reform Act 1994, section 17—the employee's service between 23 June 1990 and 30 March 1994; and
(b) subject to subsection (2), a period when the employee was not employed by the employer must be taken into account.
(4) Subsection (3)(a)(i) does not affect an employee's entitlement to long service leave under—
(a) an award made before 23 June 1990; or
(b) the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1961.
(5) This section does not limit any other entitlement to long service leave that an employee may have.