The Government is encouraging employers to make enterprise agreements.

But you need to consider that this might not be the best option to tailor award conditions to suit your workplace. You do have other options available to you.

They are:
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Dear Reader,

When it comes to enterprise agreements, there are so many things you need to be up to speed on.

For starters, you need to choose the right type of enterprise agreement… then you have to decide what you want from it… negotiate with your employees and their bargaining representatives in good faith… choose the content of the agreement… not to mention get it properly approved by Fair Work Australia.

And that’s not even the half of it…

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When you want to make an enterprise agreement, you must give all the employees who are going to be covered by the agreement the chance to appoint bargaining representatives.

And remember, unions can also be bargaining representatives if they are eligible to cover the employee represented. And not only that – if employees who are union members fail to actively appoint someone other than their union to be their bargaining representative, then the union will become the bargaining representative by default.

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