AP811245 - Timber Industry – CFMEU Wood Panels – Award 2000

10. ENTERPRISE FLEXIBILITY PROVISIONS

(See ss.113A and 113B of the Act)

Where an employer or employees wish to pursue an agreement at the enterprise or workplace about how the award should be varied so as to make the enterprise or workplace operate more efficiently according to its particular needs, the following process shall apply:

10.1 A consultative mechanism and procedures appropriate to the size, structure and needs of the enterprise or workplace shall be established.

10.2 For the purpose of the consultative process the employees may nominate the union or another person to represent them.

10.3 Where agreement is reached an application shall be made to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Note: Subsections 113B(2) and (3) of the Act.