Section 181 — Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

(1) An employer that will be covered by a proposed enterprise agreement may request the employees employed at the time who will be covered by the agreement to approve the agreement by voting for it.

(2) If the employer is required by subsection 173(1) (which deals with giving notice of employee representational rights) to take all reasonable steps to give notice in relation to the agreement, the request must not be made until at least 21 days after the day on which the last notice under subsection 173(1) in relation to the agreement is given.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the employer may request that the employees vote by ballot or by an electronic method.

Related sections

• s 180 — Certain pre‑approval requirements
• s 180A — Agreement of bargaining representatives that are employee organisations—proposed multi‑enterprise agreements
• s 180B — Agreement of bargaining representatives that are employee organisations—certain proposed single‑enterprise agreements
• s 182 — When an enterprise agreement is made
• s 183 — Entitlement of an employee organisation to have an enterprise agreement cover it
• s 184 — Multi‑enterprise agreement to be varied if not all employees approve the agreement

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