Western Australian Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1979 - SECT 42I

42I .         Commission may make enterprise orders

        (1)         If —

            (a)         the Commission declares under section 42H that bargaining has ended between negotiating parties; or

            (b)         the person to whom a notice is given under section 42(1) does not respond to the notice within the prescribed period or responds with a refusal to bargain,

                the Commission may, upon an application under subsection (2), make an order (an "enterprise order") —

            (c)         providing for any matter that might otherwise be provided for in an industrial agreement to which the negotiating parties referred to in paragraph (a), or the initiating party and the person referred to in paragraph (b), were parties, irrespective of the provisions of any award, order or industrial agreement already in force; and

            (d)         that the Commission considers is fair and reasonable in all of the circumstances.

        (2)         An application for an enterprise order may be made —

            (a)         where subsection (1)(a) applies —

                  (i)         if the negotiating party in respect of whom the declaration was made is not an organisation or association of employers, by the negotiating party; and

                  (ii)         if the negotiating party in respect of whom the declaration was made is an organisation or association of employers, by an employer who is a member of the negotiating party;

                and

            (b)         where subsection (1)(b) applies —

                  (i)         if the initiating party is not an organisation or association of employers, by the initiating party;

                  (ii)         if the initiating party is an organisation or association of employers, by an employer who is a member of the initiating party.

        (3)         An application for an enterprise order may be made —

            (a)         where subsection (1)(a) applies, within 21 days after the making of the declaration; and

            (b)         where subsection (1)(b) applies, within 21 days after the end of the prescribed period.

        (4)         Without limiting section 32A, the Commission may exercise its powers of conciliation in relation to a matter even if an application for an enterprise order has been made in relation to the same matter.

        [Section 42I inserted by No. 20 of 2002 s. 133.]