Collective Agreement Within A Business
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These are minimum wage, paid annual leave, paid personal leave, unpaid parental leave and a ceiling for normal weekly working time. Scholars (Fenwick, 2006; Stewart, 2006; Cooney, Howe and Murray, 2006) noted the limited scope of these provisions. They suggest, even in these five cases, that the appearance of minimum standards is misleading, given that the provisions do not apply to all workers and that there are many possibilities for exemption. Thus, the four-week annual leave scheme does not apply to casual workers and may in any event be partially paid. There is also no plausible adjustment mechanism, except in the case of minimum wages (including junior, training and disability wages, occasional expenses, and salary and classification scales) which are the domain of a new body, the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) (Waring, de Ruyter and Burgess, 2005). .
