WORKPLACE AGREEMENTS ACT 1993

Table of Provisions

• Long Title

PART 1 -- Preliminary  

• 1 Short title
 
• 2 Commencement
 
• 3 Interpretation
 
• 4 Act overrides Industrial Relations Act 1979

PART 1A -- Phasing out and expiry of Act  

• 4A Expiry of Act
 
• 4B Further workplace agreements cannot be made
 
• 4C Limit on duration of agreements registered on or after 22 March 2001
 
• 4D Limit on duration of arrangements under repealed section 19(4)(b)
 
• 4E Termination of unregistered individual workplace agreements
 
• 4F Limit on duration of agreements not covered by section 4C or 4E
  4G. Termination of effect of agreement under repealed section 23(1)   4H. Employment conditions if workplace agreement or arrangement terminated or employee ceases to be a party  
• 4I Rights, obligations and proceedings not affected by termination of agreement or arrangement
 
• 4J This Part to prevail

PART 2 -- Workplace agreements

Division 1 -- Purpose and effect of workplace agreements  

• 5 Workplace agreements
 
• 6 Effect of workplace agreement
 
• 7 Effect of workplace agreement on accrued entitlements
 
• 8 Effect of addition of employee as party

Division 2 -- Making of workplace agreements  

• 9 Making of collective workplace agreement
 
• 10 Making of individual workplace agreements
 
• 12 Persons bound by workplace agreement
 
• 13 Disposition etc. of business
 
• 14 Termination of contract of employment
 
• 15 Bargaining agents

Division 3 -- Contents and formalities  

• 17 Minimum conditions of employment
 
• 18 Implied provision as to unfair dismissal
 
• 21 Agreement must provide for resolution of certain disputes
 
• 22 Certain requirements relating to membership of organizations to have no effect
 
• 24 Cancellation and variation

Division 4 -- Register of workplace agreements etc.  

• 28 Register
 
• 39 Confidentiality
 
• 40 Section 39 not applicable to public sector agreements

PART 3 -- Application to public sector  

• 41 Definition for this Part
 
• 42 Act binds Crown
 
• 43 Employees in the public sector
 
• 44 Employers in the public sector
 
• 45 Matters that cannot be the subject of a workplace agreement
 
• 46 Agreement to prevail over certain written laws

PART 4 -- Keeping of records  

• 47 Keeping of employment records
 
• 48 Access to records kept by employer

PART 5 -- Disputes, remedies and offences

Division 1 -- Enforcement  

• 49 Definitions
 
• 50 Actions for breach of agreement etc.
 
• 51 Unfair dismissal
 
• 53 Representation
 
• 54 Disputes procedures to be followed
 
• 55 Court bound by arbitrated decision
 
• 56 Time limits
 
• 57 Orders that can be made
 
• 58 Monetary limit on jurisdiction
 
• 59 Jurisdiction of other courts
 
• 60 Proof of agreement
 
• 61 Appeals
 
• 63 Enforcement of money orders

Division 2 -- Other remedies  

• 64 Arbitrated decisions
 
• 65 Injunctions

Division 3 -- Offences  

• 66 Definition
 
• 67 Offences relating to representation
 
• 68 Threats and intimidation
 
• 69 Misinformation
 
• 70 Dismissal etc. because of refusal to enter into agreement
 
• 71 Coercion of employers by commercial pressure
 
• 72 Penalties
 
• 74 Who may prosecute

PART 8 -- General  

• 100 Exclusive jurisdiction for offences
 
• 101A Registration of industrial agents
 
• 102 Regulations
• SCHEDULE 1
• Compilation table