When negotiations stall Sometimes negotiations don’t go according to plan. Both sides in negotiation can be subjected to an opponent who seemingly won’t budge or refuses to negotiate, like cars stuck in a traffic jam. This can result in an irreconciliable deadlock with negotiations going nowhere. A...
Author Fred Bolling, Special Consultant Each time you “fend off” a large number of these claims, but you feel somewhat obliged in each renegotiation to give something, although you feel you get nothing in return. After a few rounds of negotiations over several years, you realize that your EBA is...
Benefits of Mind Maps Mind maps are excellent visual tools that help diagram and organise complex information in front of everyone. Mind maps can begin with a central idea, goal, or issue. Associated ideas then stem off in branches from the main idea, goal or issue, like they do off a tree...
Earlier this week the Federal Coalition Government and the Palmer United Party made a deal which keeps employer’s guaranteed superannuation payments at their current rates of 9.5% until 2021, and not reach 12% until 2025. Previously, under Labor it was to gradually increase from 9% to 12% between 1...
Employers are partnering with specialist EBA organisations to sharpen their knowledge, skills, strategies and tactics in order to secure EBA outcomes that better reflect the needs of the business and their employees. A revolution indeed! Gladstone (Curtis Island) Workers narrowly voted last week...
Whilst the Abbott Federal Government is still negotiating its way through being able to get its legislative agenda through the Senate, one piece of draft legislation may already be affecting how businesses in the Building and Construction industry conduct their operations and deal with unions. A...
The ACTU has revealed its bargaining strategy to win new rights for employees to compensate for changes announced in the recent Federal Budget - by making employers pay. ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver says, “More than 4 million Australian workers are covered by enterprise bargaining agreements and...
This is the fourth and final related article designed to help you be more successful in your EBA negotiations. It was a tetralogy and it is at an end - or is it? Getting to Here In our tetralogy, we have previously explored - The need to improve your knowledge, planning, preparation and skills -...
We are not calling anyone stupid, this is simply the third of four related articles designed to help you be more successful in your EBA negotiations. It is a tetralogy (what a great word....we know that you have probably googled it by now). Our first 2 articles Knowledge, planning, preparation,...
This is the second of four related articles designed to help you be more successful in your EBA negotiations. It is part of a tetralogy (did you look it up?). The Fair Work Act isn’t going to change in any fundamental way any time soon, but it is only one aspect of your EBA bargaining environment...
