Not necessarily. Employment with a parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate of the petitioning organization can count toward the continuous year, so a payroll move inside a genuinely related group may be continuous qualifying employment. The relationship between the two companies is what has to be proven.
Continuity is about the group, not about the payroll number
The rule asks for one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad within the preceding three years, with a qualifying organization. Where the holding company owns and controls both the harvesting company and the hay production company, both are affiliates and Bertrand's twenty-two months may be read as one qualifying period. The proof burden falls on the corporate side.
Share registers must show the ownership on the dates in question, not merely today. Minute book entries should record any restructuring. If the group used a partnership, a trust or a personal holding at any point, the chain has to be drawn through it.
The employment side then has to show that the work never stopped and that the capacity stayed managerial across both stretches. Where either company was dormant during part of the period, that stretch may not count, so the trading evidence matters as much as the ownership evidence.