NECA’s Workplace Relations team provides members with a range of industrial relations and employment related services including advice on your obligations as an employer, workplace grievances, underpayments, negotiating employment conditions and enterprise bargaining.

Our highly skilled team can assist you in staying up to date with legislative changes and ensure business compliance with Australian workplace laws.

• Keep up to date with articles, webinars and podcasts as complying with employment legislation such as the Fair Work Act, modern Awards, and state-based legislation, can be complex and difficult to keep up to date, when regulations are rapidly changing.
• Put in place best practice workplace processes and policies to protect your business as well as your employees and mitigate your risks.
• With expertise and specialist knowledge in Enterprise Agreements, underpayments, disputes, Award interpretation and quantitative data analysis, we can provide you with peace of mind when it comes to managing and complying with employment obligations.

Benefits as a Member

Unlimited Advice

Valued at $2,500

Guidance on workplace relations matters and Awards such as wages, union right of entry, workplace disputes, contracts, terminations (ie: entitlements, payouts, letters), redundancy and unfair dismissal and general protection (i.e. forms, timeframes).

Templates and Resources

Valued at $2,500

Access to a range of templates and resources including NECA’s labour calculator, wage rate bulletins, Termination Guide and selected employment contracts. Valued at $2,000

Advocacy & Enterprise Agreement (EA) Negotiations

As the peak employer association within the electro-technology industry, we understand your business needs. We use our industry knowledge and expertise to advocate on behalf of members with Government regulatory bodies and industry stakeholders and we are continuously looking at ways we can support members in the ever-changing industrial landscape.

Fee for service at competitive rates

Tailored Advice & Consultation

Provision of complex advice on industrial relations matters including review of documents and records such as policies.

Managing Industrial Relations Training

Training in on-site industrial relations issues including industrial action, unlawful picketing, union right of entry matters, and general matters such as unfair dismissal and general protections applications.

Underpayment assistance

Guidance and assistance with underpayments including timesheet and record review, calculations and dispute resolution guidance (up to settlement).

Dispute claims (up to conciliation) and Fair Work Commission applications

Engaging in internal dispute process, if escalated review of application, jurisdiction advice, interview of relevant persons, industrial research, filing and serving employer response and attendance at conciliation conference as employer representative.

Unfair Dismissal Claims

Review of application, jurisdiction advice, interview of relevant persons, industrial research, filing and serving employer response and attendance at conciliation conference as employer representative (up to conciliation only).

Fee for service at competitive rates

Agreement Variations

Phone consultation and guidance on variation process, ongoing assistance and lodgement of all required documentation. For example assistance with discrimination or sexual harassment issues, and guidance on variation process, ongoing assistance and lodgement of all required documentation.

Agreement Termination

Phone consultation and guidance on termination process, ongoing assistance and lodgement of all required documentation

Enterprise Agreement (EA) Package

Drafting of Agreement, including amendments (where required), explanatory memorandum for employer and employee, assistance with staff communications, attendance of vote (optional), lodgement of documentation with the FWC, ABCC for code compliance as well as the lodgement of submissions and/or undertakings with the FWC.

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