Act Health Enterprise Agreements

The Fair Work Commission can also help employers and workers who are embarking on the “New Approaches” program. Learn more about the new approaches on the Fair Labour Commission website. Each enterprise agreement must include a concept of flexibility with individual modalities of flexibility. In the vote that ended on April 30, most staff voted “yes” to the new agreement, with 91% of voters voting for the new agreement. This new enterprise agreement provides for salary increases for health care professionals at ACT Health. Workers are able to take industrial action when negotiating a draft enterprise agreement. There are strict rules governing union action under the Fair Work Act 2009, including the rights, duties and obligations of employers, workers and their organizations. For more information, see the Fair Work Ombudsman – Trade Union Actions fact sheet. Organizations that are negotiators (employers, employers` organizations and trade unions) in favour of a proposed enterprise agreement must disclose certain financial benefits that they (or certain related parties) may obtain (or could obtain) because of the length of the proposed agreement.

An agreement is reached with a single company between a single employer (or more than two or more employers with a single interest) and workers who are employed at the time of the agreement and who are covered by the agreement. Employers with a common interest are employers who are in a joint venture or joint venture or who are related companies. They may also be employers approved by the Commission for fair work as an employer with a single interest, which can be either franchised or by other employers, if the Minister of Labour has made a statement. The proposed application for an enterprise agreement must be submitted to the Fair Labour Commission within 14 days of the date of filing or within an additional period of time, as permitted by the Fair Work Commission. The terms of an enterprise agreement, transitional instruments (assignment or convention) and modern rewards cannot exclude the NES, and those who do so will have no effect. In addition, a worker`s bargaining representative who is covered by the agreement cannot conduct standard negotiations on the agreement. Typical negotiations are those where a negotiator represents two or more proposed enterprise agreements and wants to enter into joint agreements with two or more employers.