Multi-employer bargaining will now require majority support within each workplace, Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke revealed on Sunday.
A majority of employees within each workplace will need to vote in favour of multi-employer bargaining for an agreement to take place, after Labor made its first concession on its controversial industrial relations bill.as key Senate crossbenchers David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie are unwilling to accept the timeline to pass the legislation by December 1 and believe a longer inquiry is needed.
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke says negotiations on further amendments will take place in the Senate.As the government resists pressure to split or delay its omnibus industrial relations legislation, amid pushback from employer groups againstIndustrial Relations Minister Tony Burke said on Sunday he had agreed to change how voting for multi-employer agreements took place.
Voting to be part of a multi-employer agreement or to take industrial action will now be employer-by-employer, rather than across multiple workplaces, Mr Burke toldThe Business Council of Australia, which has been in discussions with the minister on a series of amendments, raised concerns that large unionised workplaces could rope in unwilling small businesses into agreements if votes were tallied on an overall basis.“One of the concerns which was a reasonable concern, was ...
“It’ll be changed so that to be part of an agreement, where you’re getting a majority of the staff, it’s employer by employer where that’s counted.Mr Burke said the change would put an end to the argument that workplaces that did not want to be part of a multi-employer agreement could be roped in.
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