Enterprise Agreements
An Enterprise Agreement is a collective workplace contract made between you and all of your employees which replaces the Modern Award(s) that would otherwise apply to your business.
Enterprise Agreements allow you to replace multiple Awards with one easy to understand agreement specifically tailored to meet the needs of your business. Importantly, an Enterprise Agreement does not have any legal effect until it is approved by Fair Work Australia.
Workforce Guardian's Professional service enables you to draft your Enterprise Agreement yourself and our team of experts is also available to provide comprehensive assistance with every step of the Enterprise Agreement-making process. You can choose to engage our team as and when required or we can manage the entire process for you from start to finish via our fixed price Enterprise Agreement-making service.
Working together
With Workforce Guardian, you can create an Enterprise Agreement that works for you, your business and your employees. An effective Enterprise Agreement explains workplace expectations and rewards, and allows you to tailor your agreement to reflect your business' own unique culture.
Workforce Guardian's ER team offers a practical, hands-on approach with finely honed negotiation skills to steer the collective bargaining process through to a successful Enterprise Agreement.
We can help you negotiate your way through the often complex array of Modern Awards, business requirements and employee expectations.
We will help you build an agreement that reflects your business culture, supports your business growth and fosters long term harmony and commitment - all of which will help you attract and retain outstanding employees.
There are a number of ways that we can work with you to develop your workplace agreement:
Option 1
You can use your Professional subscription to draft your Enterprise Agreement yourself. However, the Fair Work Act 2009 sets out a very clear legal process and this must be followed precisely for your agreement to be deemed valid. These inherent legal complexities include:
- Delivery of the Bargaining Representative Notification pursuant to Section 173 of the Act
- All bargaining to be conducted in 'good-faith' pursuant to Section 228 of the Act
- Delivery of final document and voting procedure notification at least 7 days prior to the employee vote, and
- Lodgement of the approved Agreement with Fair Work Australia within 14 days and completion of Forms F16 and F17
Option 2
With our one-to-one consultancy service, you can access expert advice, support and guidance from Workforce Guardian as and when required. This option allows you to access and pay for expert support with your workplace agreement on an 'as-needed' basis. This service is offered $350 per hour (plus GST) for subscribers.
This option will suit your business if you are confident on most aspects of HR and simply want the reassurance of having experts on hand to draft documents, answer questions and take care of the lodgement paperwork once the agreement has been approved by your employees.
Option 3
If you want to outsource every aspect of your Enterprise Agreement process, Workforce Guardian offers a dedicated Enterprise Agreement Pack that can be purchased at one flat rate depending on the number of employees in your business.
| Number of Employees | Rate |
| 1-14 | $5,750 + GST |
| 15-50 | $9,800 + GST |
| 51-100 | $14,500 + GST |
| 100+ | Quote available upon application |
As Australia's leading online employment relations service, Workforce Guardian makes it easy to get specialist employment relations help. With our in house team of ER specialists, we can assist you with airtight Enterprise Agreements for at a fraction of the price you would expect to pay with a legal team.
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