Enterprise Bargaining Agreements
On 1 July 2009 new laws governing enterprise agreements took effect. Unlike employment contracts made between individual employees and their employer, enterprise bargaining agreements are collective agreements made between employers and their employees at the enterprise level and cover the terms and conditions of their employment. The terms of an enterprise agreement must not be less beneficial to an employee than the National Employment Standards and the employee must be better off overall that they would be under the relevant modern award.
It is most common for an enterprise agreement to be made between an employer and some or all of their employees, which is referred to as a single enterprise agreement. In this form of agreement there are fewer requirements in seeking authorisation or notifying Fair Work Australia when the employer and employee wish to bargain for an enterprise agreement.
We can assist employers who wish to enter into enterprise bargaining with their employees in navigating the strict requirements for doing so.
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