Workplace Relations. Commitments to the following:
Workplace Relations. The ACTU and BCA are united in their desire to see the living standards of Australians grow. For this to be achieved businesses need to succeed, productivity needs to grow, and the benefits of that growth need to be shared with workers. Bargaining is an essential mechanism for fair and sustainable wages growth. Both the BCA and the ACTU believe the bargaining system under the Fair Work Act needs to be reformed so it is simpler, fairer, and more accessible. The current system is resource intensive, is difficult for people to use and too often fails to incentivise innovation to deliver win-win outcomes for employers and employees. The ACTU and BCA agree that the following principles should underpin bargaining reform and amendments to the Fair Work Act should:
1. Promote and encourage bargaining
2. Provide a framework for good faith bargaining between equal parties
3. Ensures bargaining is simple and fair
4. Ensures the bargaining process is straightforward; not litigious or dominated by technicalities
5. Maintain but simplify the BOOT
6. Allow agreements to replace Awards (but not the NES) so long as they continue to leave workers better off overall.
Workplace Relations. L1 Consultation
Workplace Relations. 3.1.1 Effective consultation and communication are essential features of workplace relations at the CWT and the parties commit to both in order to:
a) Develop and improve working relationships
b) Enhance the efficiency of the CWT operations
c) Help facilitate the successful introduction of workplace change and improvement.
3.1.2 The parties recognise the importance of effective communication and appropriate consultation in the workplace and fully accept their respective responsibilities in this regard.
3.1.3 The parties agree to communicate openly, actively and constructively in the conduct of CWT business. All communications will be as prompt and regular as possible.
3.1.4 The parties agree to conduct timely and regular meetings across business units in order for information to be exchanged between management and employees of the CWT.
3.1.5 The parties agree to make relevant documentation available freely and to circulate this promptly and regularly. Any information made available which is of a confidential manner will be treated accordingly.
3.1.6 The CWT is committed fully, during the life of this Agreement, to ensuring that there are opportunities for employees to be involved at the earliest possible stage when changes are likely to have an impact on their workplace, their jobs and daily operations.
3.1.7 The CWT will actively consult and provide timely acknowledgement to all internal employees regardless of the outcome and in such a manner as to encourage their continued interest and contribution to the decision making process.
3.1.8 The parties are committed to ensuring that the CWT Employee Code of Conduct and the St Martins Code of Employment Principles underpin all the dealings involving management and employees.
Workplace Relations. 2.1.1. Effective consultation and communication are essential features of workplace relations at the CWT and the parties commit to both in order to: a. Develop and improve working relationships.
Workplace Relations a) The Parties in this Agreement are committed to ensuring positive workplace relations through constructive interaction between Management and the Union including:
i. independent and effective unionism.
ii. respecting of the rights of employees to engage in Union activity.
iii. commitment to the conciliation process to achieve the effective prevention and settlement of industrial disputes.
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Workplace Relations. 29.1 The employer is committed to:
(a) Developing and maintaining constructive on-going interaction between the employer, employees and the employee industrial representative organisation party to this agreement.
(b) Agreed objectives for the organisation.
(c) Respecting the rights of employees to engage in Union activities.
(d) Effective prevention and settlement of industrial disputes.
(e) Regular consultation and communication, and the establishment of an appropriate forum for such consultation between the employer/ employee and the employee industrial representative organisation party to this agreement.
Workplace Relations. Consultation In making decisions that affect employees, whether in relation to matters covered by this Agreement or in relation to broader matters, the NCA is committed to consultation with employees and, where employees choose, their representatives. The parties to this Agreement agree: to discuss workplace issues in a spirit of cooperation and trust; and to the extent possible and at the earliest possible stage, ensure that employees and, where they choose, their representatives, not only receive information on workplace issues that affect them, but also have an opportunity to contribute and have their views on those issues taken into account, before final decisions are made. Appendix 6 provides model consultation arrangements that apply to this Agreement in accordance with the Fair Work Regulations.
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