Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts The principal objects
of this Act are —
(a) to
promote goodwill in industry and in enterprises within industry;
(aa) to
provide for rights and obligations in relation to good faith bargaining;
(ab) to
promote the principles of freedom of association and the right to organise;
(ac) to
promote equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value;
(ad) to
promote collective bargaining and to establish the primacy of collective
agreements over individual agreements;
(ae) to
ensure all agreements registered under this Act provide for fair terms and
conditions of employment;
(af) to
facilitate the efficient organisation and performance of work according to the
needs of an industry and enterprises within it, balanced with fairness to the
employees in the industry and enterprises;
(ag) to
encourage employers, employees and organisations to reach agreements
appropriate to the needs of enterprises within industry and the employees in
those enterprises;
(b) to
encourage, and provide means for, conciliation with a view to amicable
agreement, thereby preventing and settling industrial disputes;
(c) to
provide means for preventing and settling industrial disputes not resolved by
amicable agreement, including threatened, impending and probable industrial
disputes, with the maximum of expedition and the minimum of legal form and
technicality;
(ca) to
provide a system of fair wages and conditions of employment;
(d) to
provide for the observance and enforcement of agreements and awards made for
the prevention or settlement of industrial disputes;
(e) to
encourage the formation of representative organisations of employers and
employees and their registration under this Act and to discourage, so far as
practicable, overlapping of eligibility for membership of such organisations;
(f) to
encourage the democratic control of organisations so registered and the full
participation by members of such an organisation in the affairs of the
organisation; and
(g) to
encourage persons, organisations and authorities involved in, or performing
functions with respect to, the conduct of industrial relations under the laws
of the State to communicate, consult and co-operate with persons,
organisations and authorities involved in, or performing functions with
respect to, the conduct or regulation of industrial relations under the laws
of the Commonwealth.
[Section 6 inserted by No. 94 of 1984
s. 5; amended by No. 20 of 2002 s. 114 and 127.]