Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to the following seasonal employees—
(a) an employee employed in seasonal employment in the sugar industry;
(b) an employee employed in or about meat works in seasonal employment by the meat works owner.
(2) The employee is entitled to long service leave on full pay of at least the number of weeks worked out using the following formula—
Example—
An employee who worked half of each year, over a 10 year period, is entitled to half the section 43 entitlement, that is, half of 8.6667 weeks leave (8.6667 x 5 = 4.3334). 10
(3) Service with the employer of an employee engaged in harvesting sugar cane or farm work in the sugar industry before 23 June 1990 must not be taken into account in working out the length of the employee's continuous service.
(4) A period between seasons when the employee is not employed by the employer must be taken into account in working out the length of an employee's continuous service if—
(a) in 1 season—the employee's service with the employer continued until the end of the season or until an earlier day when the employee's employment was terminated by the employer; and
(b) in the next season—the employee's service with the same employer started on the season's opening or on a later day in the season when the employer required the employee to start employment.
(5) If an employee is employed by the employer between seasons, the part of the period between seasons when the employee is employed must be taken into account in working out the length of the employee's actual service.
(6) An employee who is entitled to long service leave elsewhere than under this Act, is entitled to leave that is at least as favourable as the entitlement under this section.
(7) In this section—
actual service means the total ordinary time actually worked by an employee during the employee's period of continuous service.
section 43 entitlement means the entitlement to long service leave of an employee under section 43.