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shinny:
Could someone explain the difference between contract of employments and Australian Workplace Agreements? They seem pretty similar to me..

jsimmo:
An Australian Workplace Agreement was a type of employment contract. Since their abolishment there are now only two main employment contracts: Awards and Collective Agreements.

RD:
jsimmo (or anyone else), could you explain to me what EBA's are?

jsimmo:
An EBA is an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement.

Enterprise bargaining is a decentralised employee relations trend where bargaining related to pay and other conditions can take place at the individuals workplace rather than throughout the industry as a whole - the enterprise bargaining process results in ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS. There are two different types of EBA's -

Collective Agrements: they cover a number of employees at the one workplace and are negotiated by these workers and their employer. Sometimes they are called 'certified agreements' because the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) needs to consider and certify their appropriateness.

The other type of EBA were AWA's which were an individual contract between an employee and their employer.

Hopefully that answers your question.
 

shinny:
Sorry for any confusion but I was referring to 'informal contracts of employment' as they're to in the Barrille textbook. But theres hardly any details provided as to what they actually are. Do we actually need to know about these?

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