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Archive for January, 2010

3 Issues You Must Consider Before Making an Enterprise Agreement

When you decide to make an enterprise agreement under the Fair Work Act, you must take all reasonable steps to give each employee who will be covered by the agreement a notice of their right to be represented by a bargaining representative.

Employees joining your organisation after this notice is issued cannot claim that they should have received the notice. However, all employees who will be covered by the agreement, regardless of when they became employees, can appoint a bargaining representative at any time up until the vote on the agreement.

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4 Common Workplace Problems – Solved!

Dear Reader,

Recently, a lot of the feedback I’ve been receiving about the Workplace Bulletin has been saying the same thing – you want to see more solutions to common workplace problems!

So I thought today’s Bulletin would be a good chance for me to share the answers to some labour queries our subscribers have sent in.

I’ve tried to pick questions that tend to get asked often, so you may have even had the same problems yourself – but not known how to deal with them.

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Employer Fined $60,000

Dear Reader,

Yesterday, I heard word of a case in which an employer was fined more than $60,000.

So what did he do?

He breached general protections provisions by dismissing three workers because of their involvement in union activities.

The three employees were dismissed for fighting for better wages and conditions during the bargaining, two of them because they were union members.

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