Enterprise Bargaining Articles
Enterprise Bargaining, good faith bargaining, negotiation, negotiating
- Are Employers Being 'Done Over' under Collective Bargaining?
- 23/01/2013
- As a consultancy which only represents employers, we sometimes are taken aback by how many companies are ‘being done over’ in enterprise agreement negotiations.
- Negotiations – Responding to threats
- 14/11/2012
- Negotiators use a variety of tactics to achieve a result. However, is the use of “threats” a legitimate negotiating tactic, or just a sign that the person making the threat has run out of options?
- Qantas - Should We Let the Umpire Decide?
- 12/12/2011
- The issues at the heart of the recent Qantas bargaining dispute were not wage increases or other financial benefits for the employees involved. They ran to the heart of how Qantas would be able to conduct its future business in a challenging business environment. These were not matters that were capable of being lawfully negotiated under Work Choices – a point lost in the debate and all the disruption in the aftermath of the dispute. Our article discusses the history of arbitration in Australia - and whether the government should heed union calls for increased intervention from the "umpire".
- Good Faith Bargaining - the Sleeper
- 01/07/2009
- Our parent company (ER Strategies Pty Ltd) Director Steve Champion sees the new good faith bargaining requirements as being one of the more important changes introduced by the Fair Work Act , and one that is likely to be seen as a turning point in the Australian Industrial Relations system in years to come.
- The Enterprise Bargaining process
- 11/03/2009
- If you are about to embark on some important enterprise bargaining negotiations and don't know where to start, or alternatively want to think about how you can do it better, you should find our Enterprise Bargaining flowchart of great benefit.
- Enterprise Agreements? Are they worth the trouble?
- 10/03/2010
- Enterprise agreements under the Fair Work Act? Our question to you would be, "Why do you want to do one?" The cost and aggravation might significantly outweigh the benefits, particularly as uncertainty under the system has grown significantly.
- Industrial action, good faith bargaining and the Fair Work Act
- 11/03/2011
- We consider some aspects of the law surrounding the negotiation of enterprise agreements, which might surprise some employers not closely involved in the process recently.
