Introduction
A collective agreement sets out the terms and conditions for work. Collective agreements can apply to employee-like workers or regulated road transport contractors who perform work under a services contract.
Content
Types of collective agreements
The 2 types of collective agreements are:
- employee-like worker collective agreements – made between:
- a digital labour platform operator and
- an organisation (union) that can represent employee-like workers
- road transport collective agreements – made between:
- a road transport business and
- an organisation (union) that can represent regulated road transport contractors.
Who can make a collective agreement
A collective agreement may be made between a regulated business and a union that represents regulated workers.
Regulated businesses include:
- digital labour platform operators, and
- road transport businesses.
Regulated workers include:
- employee-like workers performing digital platform work, and
- regulated road transport contractors engaged in the road transport industry.
Our role
A regulated business and a union that represents regulated workers must follow the process in the Fair Work Act to make a collective agreement.
We can:
- deal with disputes about the making of a collective agreement
- register collective agreements once they have been made by the parties
- register variations to a registered collective agreement that have been made by the parties, and
- register termination notices for collective agreements (where a collective agreement has been terminated in accordance with the process specified in the agreement for terminating the agreement before the end of its period of operation).
See Part 3A-4 of the Fair Work Act 2009.