Different enterprise agreements may include concepts that would be “authorized issues” if included in the enterprise agreement. These include: The Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) aims to promote flexibility in the workplace by using individual flexibility devices (IFAs). The IFA allows for changes to modern bonuses or enterprise agreements to meet the real needs of employers and individual workers, while ensuring that minimum rights and protection measures are not compromised. These types of agreements must continue to meet minimum obligations and standards such as the minimum wage. In the context of an individual flexible employment contract, a worker must be “overall better off”. The Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) compares the IFA to the 2020 Pastoral Prize. The agreement will go through the BOOT, if, in the end, the employees are better off, it would have been that no agreement was reached and that they remain paid after the bonus. The financial remuneration received by the employee before and after the conclusion of the contract is compared. The Fair Work Act allows for the variation of certain conditions of the Modern Awards. This makes it possible to adapt working conditions to the individual needs of workers (or employers) as long as the worker as a whole is “better off”.

Below is a gradual process that allows you to determine if an agreement arrives at BOOT – there is a table in the flat payment rate calculator that performs this calculation for you. This model of agreement on individual flexibility is used by employers in the implementation of this type of agreement as part of a bonus or enterprise agreement containing the concept of standard flexibility. Please note calendar 2.2 of the 2009 Fair Work Regulations to show the concept of model flexibility. Since an enterprise agreement may contain conditions outside the standard flexibility period, employers are encouraged to review their enterprise agreement and call the Workplace Advice Line on 1300 55 66 77 for additional assistance. Premium rights for one of these five contracting issues may be varied by agreement between an employer and a single worker, provided the worker is “better off” overall under the AFI. However, any modern attribution and enterprise agreement must include a concept of “flexibility.” If an enterprise agreement does not contain a concept of flexibility, it will be carried out in such a way as to include the concept of standard flexibility defined in the Fair Work Regulations 2009. You`ll find a link in the “More Information” section at the end of this manual.