Sentence examples for workplace agreements from inspiring English sources

He said Australian Workplace Agreements – which were part of the Howard government's unpopular WorkChoices system – were "not coming back".

Enterprise contracts proposed by the Productivity Commission are worse than WorkChoices-era workplace agreements, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has said.

The contract idea has triggered trigger comparisons with the Australian workplace agreements (AWAs) that were a hallmark of the former Howard government's WorkChoices regime.

The chamber supported the proposal for an enterprise contract, but asked the government to consider individual statutory contracts such as Australian workplace agreements.

The decline of members and union coverage of workplace agreements continued in the harsher legal environment of the Howard years and was not reversed by Labor's Fair Work Act.

The ACTU said the WorkChoices-era Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) "saw workers given no choice but to sign unfair agreements that removed their rights and conditions", and the new proposed agreements were even worse.

Badenoch said a new workplace agreement was not a prerequisite to selling Patrick Stevedores.

The board thanked Garrett, who resigned after refusing to vote for the government's proposed workplace agreement.

"We believe that we are within our rights to vary our workplace agreement provided the majority of our employees support the changes through a formal vote," Yasuda said.

The federal court last week ordered the company to abandon putting a vote on a new workplace agreement to the 2,500 workers at its Altona plant.

A small group of Toyota shop stewards and workers sought the injunction, arguing that the existing workplace agreement at Toyota's Altona plant included a clause which said "no further claims" could be made during the life of the agreement.