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What is Enterprise Bargaining?
Enterprise Bargaining involves negotiating wages and conditions for employees in a specific workplace. Like most organisations around Australia, The University of Western Australia has in place formal arrangements with employee representatives and unions to negotiate conditions of work through Enterprise Bargaining.
The first Enterprise Bargaining Agreements were negotiated at the University in 1994. They have been regularly re-negotiated since that time. Recent legislative changes now refer to these types of agreements as Enterprise Agreements.
What is an Enterprise Agreement?
An Enterprise Agreement generally sit sabove an Award and regulates the wages and conditions of employees covered by that Agreement. An Agreement negotiated between an employer and a Union or group of Unions is a Union Collective Agreement. The Academic and General Staff Agreements are Union Collective Agreements.
A Collective Agreement may even be specific to a certain group of employees, as occurs at the University with the Childcare Employees' Agreement. This enables employees and employers to tailor matters to best suit the workplace in which they work. These are known as Employee Collective Agreements.
What are the current Agreements at UWA?
Employees at the University are covered by:
Who is involved in enterprise bargaining negotiations?
Representatives from Human Resources at the University negotiate with union representatives from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) and the Australian Metal Workers Union – Printing Division (AMWU) as well as elected Academic and General Staff employee representatives.
Before a Collective Agreement can be lodged with Fair Work Australia, it must be approved by a valid majority of staff who are eligible to vote. The University conducts a staff ballot in accordance with the Fair Work Act 2009.
The University will be seeking specific feedback from employees on particular issues during negotiations to better inform all negotiating parties. Any questions or issues you would like raised during the next round of enterprise bargaining can be emailed to the address provided below.
Where can I find further information?
Further information regarding enterprise agreements is available from Fair Work Australia. If you have any questions regarding enterprise bargaining or the Agreements at the University of Western Australia, please email uwa-eb@admin.uwa.edu.au.
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