Paragraph 8: Staff
222.Sub-paragraph (1) provides that all the staff of the Water Industry Commissioner for Scotland will transfer to the Commission once it is established.
223.Sub-paragraph (2) provides for the contract of employment of any staff transferred under sub-paragraph (1) not to be terminated by the transfer, but to continue as if originally made between the member of staff and the Commission.
224.Sub-paragraph (3) provides that when staff are transferred to the Commission, the Commission will take on all rights, powers, duties and liabilities in relation to the contracts of employment of these staff and that anything done in relation to employees or their contracts before the transfer continues to have effect after the transfer.
225.Sub-paragraph (4) states that the transfer under these provisions does not affect any person’s right to terminate their contract of employment if the terms and conditions can be shown to have been changed substantially to their detriment. However, the fact that that the identity of the person’s employer has changed is not in itself sufficient to constitute such a change.
226.Sub-paragraphs (5), (6) and (7) provide that the Commission may employ other staff, and determine their terms and conditions and the arrangements for pensions, allowances or gratuities. Ministers must approve all such recruitment and arrangements. Sub-paragraph (8) provides that reference to provision of pensions, allowances or gratuities, includes provision by way of compensation for loss of office or employment.
