AT809686 - Analabs Consent Award 2001 [Transitional]
9.1 The parties to this award are committed to cooperating positively to increase the efficiency, productivity and competitiveness of the Employer and to enhance career opportunities and job security of employees of the Employer.
9.2 At each laboratory, consultative mechanisms and procedures shall be established appropriate to the size, structure and needs of that laboratory. These mechanisms shall include representatives of the Employer and the employees. The Union shall also be entitled to participate where it has at least one member at the laboratory, or where it has been invited to represent employees.
Measures raised by the Employer, employees or the Union for consideration consistent with 9.1 herein shall be processed through the consultative mechanism and procedures.
9.3 Implementation of the classification structure, facilitative provisions contained in this award, and training shall be considered issues consistent with 9.1 herein.
9.4 Where agreement is reached at an enterprise or workplace through the consultative mechanisms and procedures, and where giving effect to such agreement requires this award, as it applies at the particular laboratory, to be varied, an application to vary shall be made to the Commission. The agreement shall be made available in writing, to all employees at the particular laboratory and to the Union.
9.5 When this award is varied to give effect to an agreement made pursuant to this clause the variation shall become a schedule to this award and the variation shall take precedence over any provision of this award to the extent of any expressly identified inconsistency.
9.6 The agreement must meet the following requirements to enable the Commission to vary this award to give effect to it;
9.6.1 that the purpose of the agreement is to make the laboratory operate more efficiently according to its particular needs;
9.6.2 that the majority of employees covered by the agreement genuinely agree to it;
9.6.3 that the award variation necessitated by the agreement meets the requirements of the “no disadvantage” test set out at s.170XA(1) and (2) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
9.7 To facilitate information dissemination, the Employer shall allow its notice boards to be used for the posting of notices by accredited representatives of the Union.
