Individual flexibility arrangements

Section 144 of the FW Act requires all modern awards to include a ‘flexibility term’ enabling employers and individual employees to enter into ‘individual flexibility agreements’ (IFAs). The effect of an IFA is to vary award terms in order to meet the genuine needs of the employer and employee concerned. A standard or model flexibility clause has been adopted in all modern awards. Certain safeguards of employees’ interests apply in relation to the making of IFAs under award flexibility clauses.

See Individual flexibility arrangements .