AN120152 – Community Pharmacy (State) Award 2001
3.1 Where a business is before or after the date of this award, transmitted from an employer (in this subclause called "the transmittor") to another employer (in this subclause called the "transmittee") and an employee who at the time of such transmission was an employee of the transmittor in that business becomes an employee of the transmittee:
3.1.1 the continuity of the employment of the employee shall be deemed not to have been broken by reason of such transmission; and
3.1.2 the period of employment which the employee has had with the transmittor or any prior transmittor shall be deemed to be service of the employee with the transmittee.
3.2 In this subclause "business" includes trade, process, business or occupation and includes part of any such business and "transmission" includes transfer, conveyance, assignment or succession whether by agreement or by operation of law and "transmitted" has a corresponding meaning.