Bargaining representatives

Employees and employers may appoint bargaining representatives to represent them during the bargaining process.

Bargaining representatives play a key role in the collective bargaining framework operating under the FW Act.

Part 2–4 contains provisions relating to the appointment and revocation of appointment of bargaining representatives.

These provisions allow for a considerable degree of choice as to whom employers and employees may appoint as their bargaining representative, while also providing that a union is the default representative of any of its members who will be covered by an agreement (unless they appoint someone else).

See Bargaining representatives.

Bargaining representatives for a proposed greenfields agreement are subject to special rules as a result of the unique circumstances in which such agreements are made. See Bargaining representatives for a greenfields agreement.