Enterprise agreements are non-binding unless they have been registered, evaluated and approved by the Fair Work Commission. An agreement is reached on several companies between two or more employers (not all of whom are employers with a single interest) and workers who are employed at the time of the agreement and who are covered by the agreement. The Fair Work Commission evaluates and verifies all enterprise agreements before they are registered. An enterprise agreement cannot include negotiators who are required to act in good faith in the process of negotiating a proposed enterprise agreement. The Victorian Chamber has identified 14 different steps in the business negotiation process, beginning with the definition of the organization`s objectives. The AAS had a unique characteristic in Australia: during the negotiation of a federal enterprise contract, a group of workers or a union without legal sanctions could take union action (including strikes) to pursue their demands. If, after six months of negotiations, the employers` and trade union organizations fail to agree on the terms of a Greenfields agreement, the employer can continue to submit the agreement to the Fair Work Commission. An enterprise agreement will enter into force seven days after the Approval of the Fair Work Commission or at a later date in accordance with the agreement. From that date, an employee`s terms and conditions are deducted from the enterprise agreement. Ideally, the start of business negotiations should be based on the definition of organizational objectives.

Goals should be the property of decision makers and shared with staff and stakeholders. With clear and defined objectives, companies have a benchmark to determine the direction of negotiations and overcome the obstacles that often arise when negotiations are underway. Organizational objectives can be at the heart of your communication framework to engage employees and respond to negotiators with consistency and clarity. Although there are no longer individual legal contracts under the Fair Work Act 2009, workers and employers can enter into an Individual Flexibility Agreement (IFA) that varies the terms of an enterprise agreement to meet the needs of the worker and employer.