We are now four years in to the operation of the Fair Work Act,
which means that any enterprise agreements that were entered into
at the start of the new regime will be coming up to their nominal
expiry date.
In addition, we are also coming across employers who are still
acting under agreements from the previous industrial relations
laws, including collective agreements, Australian workplace
agreements (AWA's) and individual transitional employment
agreements (ITEA's). These agreements will also have
expired.
If you have an expired agreement operating in your workplace, or
have one that is coming up to it's expiry date, what you do
next will depend on the type of agreement you have in place, and
also on the terms of the agreement. It may be that some workplaces
will be able to continue to operate under an expired agreement, as
it continues to comply with the requirements of the Fair Work Act.
Some workplaces, however, will need to update their agreements to
ensure
