Making a collective agreement
(1) This section provides for the making of an agreement (a collective agreement) between a regulated business and an organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or more regulated workers. Collective agreement for employee‑like workers (2) A collective agreement may be made between a digital labour platform operator and an organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or more employee‑like workers, in respect of the following: (a) the terms and conditions on which employee‑like workers covered by the collective agreement perform digital platform work: (i) under a services contract to which the digital labour platform operator is a party; or (ii) under a services contract arranged or facilitated through or by means of the digital labour platform operated by the digital labour platform operator; (b) how the collective agreement will operate. Note: For when a collective agreement covers a digital labour platform operator, an employee‑like worker or an organisation, see section 536JM. Collective agreement for regulated road transport contractors (3) A collective agreement may be made between a road transport business and an organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or more regulated road transport contractors, in respect of the following: (a) the terms and conditions on which regulated road transport contractors covered by the collective agreement perform work under services contracts to which the road transport business is a party; (b) how the collective agreement will operate. Note: For when a collective agreement covers a road transport business, a regulated road transport contractor or an organisation, see section 536JM. (4) A collective agreement referred to in subsection (2) is an employee‑like worker collective agreement. (5) A collective agreement referred to in subsection (3) is a road transport collective agreement.
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