EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1990 No. 321
Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations (Amendment)
(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations)
Section 26 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.
Section 11 of the Act provides that the period of service of an employee for long service leave purposes is the period during which the employee has been employed continuously in Government Service.
Subsection 7(2) of the Act provides that employment with a person, authority, institution or body (including a company), whether incorporated or not, that is prescribed in the regulations shall be taken into account for the purposes of section 11 as if it had been employment with the Commonwealth.
Air Queensland Proprietary Limited (formerly Air Queensland Limited, and before that. Bush Pilots Airways Proprietary Limited and Bush Pilots Airways Limited) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Australian Airlines Limited. Employees of Australian Airlines Limited (formerly the Australian National Airlines Commission) are covered by the Long Service Leave Act.
The proposed amendment to the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations inserts new items 2B and 2C into Schedule 2 to those Regulations to authorise the recognition of prior service of any Commonwealth employees who were formerly employed by Air Queensland Proprietary Limited (including prior continuous service with Air Queensland Limited, Bush Pilots Airways Proprietary Limited and Bush Pilots Airways Limited), as service for the purposes of section 11 of the Act.