TRENDS IN FEDERAL ENTERPRISE BARGAINING SEPTEMBER QUARTER 2016 · Public sector wages growth –...

TRENDS IN FEDERAL ENTERPRISE BARGAINING SEPTEMBER QUARTER 2016

Table 1: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 which contained quantifiable wage increases (1 305 agreements)

Enterprise agreements approved in the

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All sectors 3.0 3.4 0.4 Private sector 2.9 3.4 0.5 Public sector 3.0 3.0 0.0

Table 2: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements current on 30 September 2016 which contained quantifiable wage increases (9 586 agreements)

.All current enterprise agreements

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Table of Contents

Table 1: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements approved in the September quarter 2016

Table 2: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements current on 30 September 2016

Table 3: Agreements approved in the quarter by sector

Table 4: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by sector

Table 5: Agreements approved in the quarter, by agreement type

Table 6: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by agreement type

Table 7: Agreements approved in the quarter, by ANZSIC Division,

Table 8: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by ANZSIC Division

Table 9: Agreements, by ANZSIC Division, expiring by quarter

Table 10: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state

Table 11: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state

Table 12: Agreements approved in the quarter - non-quantifiable wage increases, by reason

Table 13: Agreements approved in the quarter, by union coverage

Table 14: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by union coverage

Table 15: Agreements approved in the quarter, covering 2000 employees or more

Table 16: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division

Table 17: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division

Trends Technical Notes

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Further Information

Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining is available online at: http://employment.gov.au/trends-federal-enterprise-bargaining

The Department recommends that Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining data be read in conjunction with the Technical Notes (appended to this document), which describe the calculation methodology for the calculation of the data and provide a guide to interpreting data tables.

For other queries, please contact [email protected]

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TRENDS IN ENTERPRISE BARGAINING REPORT

SEPTEMBER QUARTER, 2016 SUMMARY

Overall wages growth under federal enterprise agreements – September quarter 2016 (Tables 1 and 2 of the Trends report)

• The average annualised wage increase (AAWI) for federal enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 was 3.4 per cent, up from 3.0 per cent in the June quarter 2016 and 3.0 per cent in the September quarter 2015 – see Note 1 at the end of this summary.

• The 3.4 per cent AAWI result is based on the 77.4 per cent of agreements approved in the September quarter 2016, covering 60.5 per cent of employees, that contained quantifiable wage increases – see Non-quantifiable agreements section and Note 2 at the end of this Summary.

• The rise in the September Quarter 2016 AAWI is primarily due to a 6.0 per cent AAWI for enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 in the construction industry. Without construction, the AAWI is 2.8 per cent for all other ANZSIC industry divisions combined, down from 2.9 per cent for the June quarter 2016.

Federal Enterprise Agreements – Proportion of Australian labour market covered Federal enterprise agreements covered 32.6 per cent of all employees as at May 2014 – see Note 3 at the end of this summary for more details. In total, federal and state enterprise agreements cover 41.1 per cent of all Australian employees in May 2014.

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Comparison of AAWI, ABS Wage Price Index (WPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) CHART 1: AAWI in approved agreements, per cent change in ABS Wage Price Index (WPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) – September quarter 2013 to September quarter 2016

Sources: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment; Australian Bureau of Statistics Wage Price Index, Australia, Cat. No. 6345.0 – September 2016; Australian Bureau of Statistics - Consumer Price Index, Australia, Cat. No. 6401.0 – September 2016.

• Chart 1 shows that the AAWI/WPI gap that opened up over 2013 has widened in the September quarter 2016.

• The gap between the two measures of wage growth needs to be interpreted with caution. The WPI measures the growth in wages for the whole economy at a point in time while the AAWI measures wage growth over the life of agreements.

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AAWI in approved agreements WPI and CPI, by quarter

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AAWI - agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 and agreements current as at 30 September 2016 (Tables 3 and 4 of the Trends report) CHART 2: Approved and current agreements AAWI – September quarter 2013 to September quarter 2016.

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment

• Chart 2 shows that of the 14,298 agreements current (neither expired nor terminated) as at 30 September 2016, 9,586 contained quantifiable wage increases. The AAWI for these agreements was 3.2 per cent, unchanged from the wage increase as at 30 June 2016.

• Of the 1,686 agreements approved in the September quarter 2016, 1,305 contained quantifiable wage increases. The AAWI for these agreements was 3.4 per cent, up from 3.0 per cent in the June quarter 2016.

Private Sector wages growth – September quarter 2016 (Table 3 and 7 of the Trends report)

• Chart 3 (overleaf) shows the quarterly AAWI for private sector agreements approved over the last three years. The AAWI for private sector agreements current as at the end of each quarter is also provided.

• The AAWI for private sector enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 was 3.4 per cent, up from the 2.9 per cent increase in the June quarter 2016 and the 3.0 per cent increase in the September quarter 2015.

• The Construction industry (6.0 per cent), Rental, Hiring, Real Estate industry (6.0) and Retail (4.2 per cent) had the highest AAWIs in the September quarter 2016:

o The Construction AAWI was heavily influenced by a total of 497 CFMEU Construction agreements approved in the quarter largely with AAWIs ranging from 6.0 per cent to 7.3 per cent.

o The Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI was affected by a total of 24 construction related agreements, including for rental mobile crane hire and contract scaffolding enterprises, with AAWIs ranging from 5.7 per cent to 7.7 per cent.

o The Retail AAWI has been pushed up from its 2.6 per cent average over the last two years to 4.2 per cent by agreements, covering commercial floor covering companies that supply construction projects, with AAWIs between 7.2 per cent and 7.7 per cent.

• The industries with the lowest AAWI were the Mining industry (1.6 per cent), Accommodation and Food services (2.1 per cent) and the Financial and Insurance services industry (2.1 per cent):

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o The Mining AAWI of 1.6 per cent continues the low wages growth in this industry, post the resources boom, where over the two years immediately preceding the current quarter the AWWI has average 2.2 per cent compared to 4.2 per cent in the two years preceding that period;

o The 2.1 per cent AAWI for Accommodation and Food services may not be representative as it is based on a very small number of agreements and differs from the 2.9 per cent average AAWI over the two years immediately preceding the current quarter;

o The Financial and Insurance services industry AAWI of 2.1 per cent is particularly affected by the Community CPS Australia Agreement 2016 with a 2.0 per cent AAWI and the current quarter is lower than the 3.3 per cent average AAWI over the immediately preceding two years.

• Large private sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 include: o NAB Enterprise Agreement 2016 – 31,087 employees – which contains non-quantifiable

wage increases (see details in the section on Non-quantifiable agreements –September quarter 2016).

o Catholic Employing Authorities Single Enterprise Collective – 17,936 employees (2.5 per cent AAWI) – this Queensland agreement was approved just prior to the making of the agreement covering Queensland Government teachers which also contained 2.5 per cent wage increases.

CHART 3: Private Sector AAWI - Approved and current agreements – September 2013 to September 2016

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment Public sector wages growth – September quarter 2016 (Table 3 of the Trends report)

• The AAWI for public sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 was 3.0 per cent, remaining the same from the June quarter 2016 and the September quarter 2015.

• In the 12 months immediately prior to the current quarter, the public sector AAWI averaged 2.9 per cent, a fall on the 3.5 per cent average AAWI for the period 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015.

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• Large public sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 include: o TAFE Commission of NSW Administrative, Support and Related Employees Enterprise

Agreement 2016– 4,874 employees (2.5 per cent AAWI). o VicRoads EA8 – 2,530 employees (3.4 per cent AAWI). o University of the Sunshine Coast Enterprise Agreement (EA) 2014 – 2018–

1,979 employees (3.6 per cent AAWI). State/Territories wages growth – September quarter 2016 (Table 10 of the Trends report)

• AAWIs for agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 are highest in Victorian agreements at 5.1 per cent (primarily due to the due to the proportion of construction agreements being approved in Victoria) and lowest in WA agreements at 2.2 per cent.

Wages growth for agreements that cover union/s and agreements with no union/s covered – September quarter 2016 (Table 13 of the Trends report) - see Note 4.

• Agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 that formally covered unions have a combined AAWI of 3.4 per cent whereas those with no unions formally covered have an AAWI of 2.5 per cent. .

Level of agreement making - as at 30 September 2016 (Table 4 of the Trends report) • The volume of new agreements approved in the September quarter 2016 increased due primarily to

the flow of Victorian CFMEU agreements; specifically 1,686 agreements were approved in the September quarter 2016 compared with an average of 1199 per quarter for the immediately preceding 12 month period.

• There were 14,298 agreements current (not yet expired or terminated) as at 30 September 2016, covering around 2 million employees. This is down by 162 agreements from the 14,460 agreements, covering around 2.2 million employees that were current as at 30 June 2016 – see Chart 4 (below) for further details.

• Around 80,000 Coles employees are now covered by the expired (but still operating) Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd and Bi-Lo Pty Limited Retail Agreement 2011 and hence are not included in the coverage figure mentioned above.

CHART 4: Current agreements and employee coverage – September 2015 to September 2016

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment

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Non-quantifiable agreements – September quarter 2016 (Table 12 of the Trends report)

• 22.6 per cent of agreements approved in the September quarter 2016, covering 39.5 per cent of employees, do not contain quantifiable wage increases, and thus are not part of the AAWI calculations.

• The Trends Technical Notes explain the reasons an agreement might not be quantifiable. • Chart 5 (below) demonstrates that the percentage of employees covered by non-quantifiable

agreements is more volatile than the proportion of agreements that are non-quantifiable. CHART 5: Proportion of approved agreements that are non-quantifiable and employees covered, September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016

• One of the five largest agreements in the September quarter 2016 was not quantifiable. o NAB Enterprise Agreement 2016- 31,087 employees. The wage increases range from 2

to 3 per cent per annum increases for some employees, to wage increases on the basis of performance for others.

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NOTES 1. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical

series. AAWI data include only increases to the base rate of pay and do not take into account allowances and bonus payments that are paid separately from the base wage.

2. For the September quarter 2016, the calculated wage increase of 3.4 per cent is based on 1,305 agreements, covering 87,790 employees (that is, 77.4 per cent of the 1,686 agreements approved in the quarter, and covering 60.5 per cent of the total of 144,971 employees).

• A total of 381 agreements, covering 57,202 employees (that is, 22.6 per cent of the 1,868 agreements approved in the quarter, covering 39.5 per cent of the total of 144,971 employees) have wage increases that could not be quantified because, for example, increases were tied to some mix of future labour market conditions, future company or individual employee performance or future Consumer Price Index movements. Refer to Table 12 in the Trends report for related data.

3. Context for the Trends in Enterprise Agreements data on wages growth in federally registered enterprise agreements:

• About one-third of all employees in the Australian labour market (as measured by the ABS 2014 Employee Earnings and Hours (EEH) survey) are covered by federal enterprise agreements.

TABLE 1: Instrument providing rate of pay for all employees 2010-2014

Instrument providing rate of pay All employees

2010 2012 2014 (%) (%) (%)

Award 15.2 16.1 18.8 Collective Agreement (Federally Registered) 31.5 32.0 32.6 Collective Agreement (State Registered) 11.9 9.8 8.6 Collective Agreement (Unregistered) 0.1 0.2 0.2 Individual Agreement (Registered and unregistered) 37.3 38.7 36.4 Owner/managers of incorporated enterprises 4.1 3.3 3.4

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics Employee Earnings and Hours, Cat. No. 6306.0 (May 2010, May 2012, May 2014). Please note that this is not intended to be analysed as a time series. Note: This table has been revised to include managerial-level employees. This accounts for all differences between this table and tables published in previous Trends reports.

4. An agreement is identified as being “union” where the decision approving the agreement notes in accordance with s201(2) of the Fair Work Act 2009 that the agreement covers the union(s) which has/have given notice under s183(1) that it/they want the agreement to cover them. It is recognised that this is a proxy measure as the data measure coverage rather than bargaining presence.

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Table 3: Agreements approved in the quarter by sector (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Public sector agreements 49 61 47 46 40 65 26 21 47 44 47 48 33 Public sector AAWI (%) 3.3 3.3 3.7 3.5 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.0 3.0 3.2 2.6 3.0 3.0 Public sector duration (yrs) 3.3 2.7 2.9 2.9 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.9 2.6 2.2 3.1 3.3 2.6 Public sector employees ('000) 123.2 79.7 71.5 37.0 46.5 68.5 15.1 18.5 30.3 27.5 41.7 55.6 15.2 Private sector agreements 2165 1586 1192 1264 1473 1545 1177 1131 1321 1231 956 1101 1653 Private sector AAWI (%) 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.4 Private sector duration (yrs) 3.1 2.4 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.6 2.6 2.8 2.6 Private sector employees ('000) 269.0 171.3 110.5 105.3 176.6 187.8 114.1 79.7 163.6 197.0 71.9 99.3 129.8 All sector agreements 2214 1647 1239 1310 1513 1610 1203 1152 1368 1275 1003 1149 1686 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.6 All sectors employees ('000) 392.3 251.0 182.1 142.3 223.0 256.4 129.2 98.3 193.9 224.5 113.5 154.9 145.0 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

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Table 4: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by sector (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Public sector agreements 533 558 567 592 427 458 461 472 444 460 475 507 445 Public sector AAWI (%) 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 Public sector duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Public sector employees ('000) 600.0 658.5 713.2 725.7 568.2 609.3 619.9 631.4 615.9 621.3 605.0 599.9 547.9 Private sector agreements 22535 22691 21869 20174 18636 18502 18406 15895 14790 14134 13822 13953 13853 Private sector AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.2 Private sector duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 Private sector employees ('000) 1896.6 1956.9 1918.6 1808.5 1762.7 1807.2 1808.1 1791.3 1571.1 1651.5 1592.9 1570.4 1475.3 All sector agreements 23068 23249 22436 20766 19063 18960 18867 16367 15234 14594 14297 14460 14298 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 All sectors employees ('000) 2496.6 2615.4 2631.8 2534.2 2330.9 2416.5 2428.0 2422.7 2187.0 2272.8 2197.9 2170.2 2023.2 Notes:



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Table 5: Agreements approved in the quarter by agreement type (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Multi-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) * * * * * * * * 1.6 * * * * Multi-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Multi-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 7 7 3 4 2 6 11 9 3 8 7 1 8 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.3 2.6 3.3 2.4 2.5 3.5 2.4 2.4 3.2 4.4 2.6 2.5 2.5 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 2.3 2.7 2.0 3.8 3.1 2.8 1.9 1.9 2.3 1.2 2.7 3.3 2.7 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 0.6 30.3 3.6 2.6 2.8 1.7 24.3 1.6 4.0 13.6 2.3 0.8 5.0 Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 248 181 181 136 126 115 83 74 71 74 57 53 46 Single-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 4.5 4.9 4.6 4.4 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.0 2.7 2.7 3.0 4.1 3.0 Single-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 2.7 2.7 2.9 2.4 2.8 2.8 3.1 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.2 2.8 2.7 Single-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 8.6 5.9 8.5 4.4 5.1 3.4 3.9 2.1 3.4 3.1 1.7 2.4 1.7 Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 1959 1459 1055 1170 1385 1489 1109 1069 1293 1193 939 1095 1632 Single-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.4 Single-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 2.6 Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 383.1 214.7 170.0 135.4 215.2 251.3 101.0 94.6 186.5 207.8 109.5 151.7 138.3 All agreements 2214 1647 1239 1310 1513 1610 1203 1152 1368 1275 1003 1149 1686 All AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 All duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.6 All employees ('000) 392.3 251.0 182.1 142.3 223.0 256.4 129.2 98.3 193.9 224.5 113.5 154.9 145.0

Notes: 1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal enterprise agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. Agreement types – see “Types of Enterprise Agreements” section in Technical Notes at the end of this report. 4. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.


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Table 6: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by agreement type (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016)

FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 Multi-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 6.9 6.9 6.9 6.9 6.9 6.9 * * 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 Multi-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.6 3.6 3.0 3.047244 2.04 2.04 2.04 Multi-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.127 0.045 0.045 0.045 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 77 77 64 66 59 54 58 67 64 67 65 62 65 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.5 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.5 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 100.7 118.0 119.8 121.8 112.1 96.2 115.3 116.9 109.5 122.6 79.6 80.1 77.8 Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 1655 1780 1806 1899 1885 1881 1823 1700 1583 1420 1296 1257 1152 Single-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.6 Single-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 Single-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 71.2 74.4 75.9 79.0 75.4 73.1 71.5 66.8 60.0 53.1 47.7 47.3 42.9 Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 18225 18590 18078 18156 17107 17017 16983 14599 13585 13105 12935 13140 13080 Single-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 Single-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 2211.5 2318.8 2342.6 2306.0 2143.0 2246.9 2241.0 2238.9 2017.4 2096.8 2070.6 2042.8 1902.5 Union collective agreements 29 23 20 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Union collective AAWI (%) 3.7 4.0 5.1 5.1 * * * * * * * * * Union collective duration (yrs) 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Union collective employees ('000) 4.3 2.5 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

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Employee collective agreements 3001 2707 2405 631 9 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Employee collective AAWI (%) 3.4 3.2 3.3 2.8 2.1 2.1 2.5 * * * * * * Employee collective duration (yrs) 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.1 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Employee collective employees ('000) 101.9 94.9 86.2 26.5 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Union greenfields agreements 29 26 20 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Union greenfields AAWI (%) 3.1 3.1 3.2 4.4 * * * * * * * * * Union greenfields duration (yrs) 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Union greenfields employees ('000) 1.3 1.2 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Employer greenfields agreements 50 44 41 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Employer greenfields AAWI (%) 2.3 2.1 2.1 * * * * * * * * * * Employer greenfields duration (yrs) 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Employer greenfields employees ('000) 5.6 5.3 4.8 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 All agreements 23068 23249 22436 20766 19063 18960 18867 16367 15234 14594 14297 14460 14298 All AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 All duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 All employees ('000) 2496.6 2615.4 2631.8 2534.2 2330.9 2416.5 2428.0 2422.7 2187.0 2272.8 2197.9 2170.2 2023.2

Notes: 1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. Agreement types – see “Types of Enterprise Agreements” section in the Technical Notes at the end of this report. 4. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 5. This table separately lists the agreement types under both the Fair Work Act and the Workplace Relations Act. Thus, for example, “union collective agreements” is the name given to

agreements approved under the Workplace Relations Act which have a union that is a party to it and which are not greenfields agreements. Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

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Table 7: Agreements approved in the quarter, by ANZSIC Division (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 17 8 10 6 16 19 19 13 18 8 9 16 9 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 2.8 3.5 3.2 2.7 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.2 2.8 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.4 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 2.7 3.0 2.2 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.9 2.7 2.7 3.2 2.3 3.1 3.3 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.8 1.1 1.3 0.9 2.0 1.8 0.3 0.4 0.3 Mining agreements 40 36 35 41 58 47 18 35 35 32 23 25 26 Mining AAWI (%) 3.6 3.5 4.0 5.0 2.5 2.9 2.1 1.9 2.3 1.8 2.2 1.6 1.6 Mining duration (yrs) 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.6 3.5 3.2 2.8 3.5 3.1 3.2 2.6 2.7 2.8 Mining employees ('000) 4.3 3.5 4.6 5.9 6.2 4.0 1.0 4.8 3.1 3.0 3.3 1.5 4.1 Manufacturing agreements 332 295 190 214 299 289 234 195 291 180 165 180 215 Manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.3 3.3 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.9 Manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.5 Manufacturing employees ('000) 26.4 17.5 16.8 17.1 18.3 20.9 12.6 10.0 16.1 12.1 8.8 11.6 11.3 Non-metal manufacturing agreements 195 173 113 129 203 178 147 133 185 110 111 121 119 Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.8 Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.8 2.6 2.7 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.8 2.8 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.6 Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 14.4 9.8 9.3 11.6 11.7 11.6 9.1 7.9 10.9 7.6 6.6 9.6 7.0 Metal manufacturing agreements 137 122 77 85 96 111 87 62 106 70 54 59 96 Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.2 3.4 3.0 3.3 2.9 2.9 3.3 3.0 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.8 3.0 Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.9 2.7 2.3 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.2 Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 12.0 7.6 7.5 5.5 6.6 9.4 3.5 2.1 5.2 4.5 2.2 2.0 4.3 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 26 33 33 31 33 45 38 46 51 47 27 23 27 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 4.2 3.7 2.9 3.4 3.3 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.2 2.3 3.0 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 3.7 2.8 2.8 2.7 1.6 2.8 3.2 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.9 1.7 2.3 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 4.8 3.7 3.1 4.9 5.3 7.0 1.9 11.5 3.4 3.9 1.6 2.0 1.3 Construction agreements 614 482 369 418 400 397 292 347 353 363 273 460 825 Construction AAWI (%) 4.8 4.5 4.2 3.9 4.7 3.8 4.3 3.8 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.9 6.0 Construction duration (yrs) 2.6 2.5 3.0 2.8 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.7 2.7 3.0 2.3 Construction employees ('000) 10.4 7.6 6.6 7.5 16.1 9.7 5.6 7.2 10.9 9.5 7.9 10.2 18.7

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FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Wholesale Trade agreements 77 58 36 39 69 58 43 44 54 45 32 22 60 Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 3.1 3.4 2.5 2.5 3.3 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.4 2.6 3.1 Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 3.1 2.6 2.8 3.4 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.7 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.1 Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 5.7 3.6 2.2 4.0 4.1 3.8 6.2 2.2 2.0 2.1 1.6 1.2 2.7 Retail Trade agreements 43 26 17 27 31 18 11 19 16 11 23 17 17 Retail Trade AAWI (%) 3.0 4.0 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.4 1.9 2.5 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.0 4.2 Retail Trade duration (yrs) 2.8 3.0 3.6 3.4 2.9 3.2 3.1 3.3 2.9 3.0 2.6 3.3 2.9 Retail Trade employees ('000) 40.6 4.5 7.6 3.0 14.3 8.9 1.1 3.5 9.9 1.1 2.5 2.1 0.3 Accommodation and Food Services agreements 47 33 33 31 46 45 34 22 31 34 20 21 27 Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 3.3 2.7 3.2 2.8 2.9 3.3 2.5 2.7 3.2 2.8 3.0 2.5 2.1 Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 3.9 3.7 2.8 2.9 2.0 3.4 2.8 3.5 2.3 3.6 3.0 3.3 3.5 Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 101.6 7.1 2.0 3.0 26.7 2.5 2.8 1.3 2.2 3.7 1.8 0.7 2.0 Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 142 108 99 105 111 140 91 105 122 117 91 83 85 Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.2 3.7 3.7 3.1 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.8 3.4 Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.8 3.1 3.1 2.7 2.9 3.0 2.7 2.8 2.5 Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 41.8 24.0 11.8 9.8 6.8 24.6 12.1 6.9 13.8 16.2 7.2 9.5 5.5 Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 10 13 17 6 9 13 12 10 10 14 11 3 6 Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.1 2.6 2.1 2.3 2.6 2.1 3.0 2.8 2.3 2.4 Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 3.0 1.2 2.2 1.9 1.6 1.9 1.6 2.1 2.5 2.9 2.2 2.6 2.2 Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 1.0 3.5 3.7 2.4 0.9 2.1 0.4 1.3 1.6 33.7 0.9 0.1 0.6 Financial and Insurance Services agreements 23 20 10 9 23 12 8 2 11 13 4 7 13 Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.2 2.8 2.1 3.2 2.9 3.4 4.7 3.2 3.0 3.6 2.9 2.1 Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 2.9 0.8 2.4 3.5 1.8 1.7 2.9 2.2 2.5 2.5 2.6 3.0 3.0 Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 5.6 24.1 3.1 2.5 35.8 47.2 0.7 0.9 2.8 56.1 0.6 11.6 32.0 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 33 33 30 22 34 29 22 21 14 18 21 9 31 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 4.4 4.2 4.1 4.1 3.1 4.1 2.7 2.9 3.6 2.5 3.3 2.0 6.0 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.3 2.9 3.2 3.1 3.5 2.8 2.8 3.1 2.7 3.8 2.3 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.4 1.0 1.0 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agts 64 42 34 38 35 40 42 27 38 33 24 16 38 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 4.6 3.3 3.8 4.4 3.1 2.9 3.1 3.9 2.8 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.7 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs) 3.0 2.5 3.0 2.7 2.6 3.2 2.4 2.4 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.0 2.7 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 3.1 3.8 2.4 1.8 1.2 4.3 9.8 2.8 1.8 2.3 1.4 3.8 2.2

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Administrative and Support Services agreements 83 64 58 62 59 61 44 26 64 52 28 30 64 Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) 3.8 4.0 4.1 3.7 3.7 3.2 3.8 3.2 3.4 3.2 3.2 3.6 3.4 Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.4 2.4 3.0 3.0 2.3 2.7 3.3 3.4 3.2 2.7 Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 4.2 5.4 2.7 4.3 7.0 7.4 5.8 0.5 4.2 3.9 3.2 1.8 3.1 Public Administration and Safety agreements 52 64 60 52 48 68 39 22 47 46 53 55 59 Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 3.6 3.3 3.6 3.1 3.3 3.1 3.6 3.1 2.8 2.3 2.5 3.0 2.9 Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.6 2.6 2.1 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.4 2.8 Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 15.7 31.3 13.9 15.4 7.8 15.5 13.4 2.9 10.5 16.4 39.0 52.7 14.1 Education agreements 58 92 62 36 55 52 67 53 57 97 58 50 31 Education AAWI (%) 4.0 3.6 3.7 3.9 3.9 3.8 2.7 3.1 3.1 3.8 3.0 3.0 2.6 Education duration (yrs) 3.2 2.4 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.5 1.8 1.5 2.4 2.7 2.7 Education employees ('000) 76.2 65.4 67.4 23.4 39.8 39.0 21.6 7.0 61.2 27.6 6.5 10.2 25.9 Health and Community Services agreements 481 188 107 128 126 225 145 113 98 97 108 82 108 Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.2 2.9 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.9 3.0 Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 2.3 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.3 Health and Community Services employees ('000) 32.3 33.0 27.8 30.3 25.3 51.2 21.7 30.0 28.3 20.5 22.9 28.6 17.3 Arts and Recreation Services agreements 24 12 10 12 15 14 11 11 15 18 8 21 13 Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) 3.4 3.9 2.9 2.9 3.2 4.0 3.6 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.8 3.3 2.7 Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 2.8 2.5 1.9 2.9 2.8 2.5 2.8 2.2 3.2 2.1 3.1 2.4 2.7 Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 10.8 6.9 1.3 3.5 1.9 3.6 2.0 1.7 5.3 4.0 1.9 3.2 1.8 Other Services agreements 48 40 29 33 46 38 33 41 43 50 25 29 32 Other Services AAWI (%) 3.0 2.9 3.1 3.5 3.1 2.7 2.5 3.3 2.4 3.2 2.5 3.2 2.8 Other Services duration (yrs) 2.1 2.0 1.8 3.0 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.9 Other Services employees ('000) 6.3 5.2 4.0 2.7 3.7 2.6 8.3 2.1 14.5 6.2 1.8 3.4 1.1 All sector agreements 2214 1647 1239 1310 1513 1610 1203 1152 1368 1275 1003 1149 1686 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.6 All sectors employees ('000) 392.3 251.0 182.1 142.3 223.0 256.4 129.2 98.3 193.9 224.5 113.5 154.9 145.0

Notes: 1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. The manufacturing category has been disaggregated into metals and non-metals industries.


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Table 8: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by ANZSIC Division (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016)


Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 544 513 470 214 146 128 134 138 139 140 143 152 136 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.4 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.2 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 14.2 13.5 12.5 7.6 6.3 5.7 6.8 7.5 8.4 9.6 9.7 10.0 8.9 Mining agreements 630 631 615 543 520 534 501 489 478 464 452 442 428 Mining AAWI (%) 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.7 Mining duration (yrs) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 Mining employees ('000) 60.5 61.6 61.0 57.9 59.1 60.3 55.1 56.8 56.2 52.3 52.5 49.9 50.6 Manufacturing agreements 3401 3395 3277 3089 2827 2848 2860 2661 2543 2508 2485 2438 2287 Manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 Manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 Manufacturing employees ('000) 201.5 201.5 199.9 198.7 186.6 191.9 189.0 184.9 172.8 166.9 164.0 162.8 147.0 Non-metal manufacturing agreements 2041 2014 1920 1811 1719 1719 1717 1633 1581 1567 1574 1548 1459 Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 122.5 122.0 119.4 119.6 112.7 116.3 117.1 116.6 111.1 106.6 105.1 106.7 100.0 Metal manufacturing agreements 1360 1381 1357 1278 1108 1129 1143 1028 962 941 911 890 828 Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 79.0 79.5 80.6 79.1 73.9 75.6 71.9 68.4 61.7 60.3 58.9 56.1 47.0 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 412 418 416 420 375 386 388 403 388 413 420 428 399 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 58.0 56.0 55.4 59.2 57.3 44.9 43.4 52.8 45.2 47.9 48.8 50.4 46.5 Construction agreements 7686 7847 7813 7503 7171 6846 6859 4777 4626 3923 3750 3908 4337 Construction AAWI (%) 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.9 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.3 Construction duration (yrs) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 Construction employees ('000) 142.5 143.9 141.6 135.4 137.1 134.3 132.7 106.0 107.0 99.2 98.3 102.5 111.5

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Wholesale Trade agreements 583 599 596 549 534 557 567 539 534 541 533 509 472 Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 30.9 31.5 32.3 33.0 31.7 34.1 38.1 38.9 38.6 39.2 38.7 36.4 31.8 Retail Trade agreements 1089 1049 861 509 343 318 309 296 279 273 262 259 240 Retail Trade AAWI (%) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 Retail Trade duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 Retail Trade employees ('000) 392.9 390.7 392.5 294.9 291.1 294.1 293.9 284.2 152.7 151.2 150.0 126.6 62.7 Accommodation and Food Services agreements 927 829 737 561 472 448 451 444 432 436 431 432 420 Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.0 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.8 Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 166.6 157.8 155.4 147.9 162.5 162.5 163.6 163.6 160.1 160.5 146.3 145.0 144.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 1602 1613 1561 1453 1299 1345 1326 1336 1246 1268 1244 1240 1171 Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 178.7 197.6 189.7 166.7 153.5 173.3 181.4 183.5 172.0 180.8 181.9 182.3 172.3 Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 157 159 168 157 137 131 133 137 112 110 108 101 92 Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 49.9 52.6 55.6 56.3 48.5 44.0 43.7 44.7 42.2 46.3 45.0 42.8 40.9 Financial and Insurance Services agreements 185 190 182 172 152 152 151 143 133 141 132 133 124 Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 2.9 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.3 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.8 2.9 Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 146.4 167.1 136.8 136.9 146.1 155.0 145.9 143.1 110.5 164.7 121.8 101.4 129.5 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 499 468 436 389 350 362 372 312 279 270 276 268 272 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 4.1 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.4 2.9 3.1 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 10.9 10.5 10.1 9.2 9.2 9.8 10.3 9.5 9.1 9.0 9.3 8.1 8.1 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agts 651 658 657 595 531 525 529 467 448 424 410 403 403 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.2 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs) 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 41.1 38.7 38.1 37.3 32.7 34.0 40.8 41.1 38.1 36.9 35.4 37.4 38.0

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Administrative and Support Services agreements 789 813 795 742 696 706 703 575 579 568 563 552 546 Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.1 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3 Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 57.0 60.7 57.6 52.4 51.8 55.8 56.5 51.9 45.8 45.6 47.2 45.0 43.6 Public Administration and Safety agreements 682 698 720 715 539 571 578 562 517 513 528 559 518 Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.9 Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 306.5 328.1 335.7 345.7 156.9 164.9 173.9 171.5 165.9 160.5 185.5 234.3 220.8 Education agreements 673 739 658 670 659 650 537 569 551 618 583 627 604 Education AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.4 Education duration (yrs) 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.7 Education employees ('000) 204.2 252.7 297.8 318.4 351.6 367.0 375.1 379.0 385.2 410.2 407.8 416.0 397.6 Health and Community Services agreements 1724 1807 1774 1827 1706 1849 1875 1941 1404 1430 1445 1469 1338 Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2 Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 Health and Community Services employees ('000) 349.9 362.4 374.8 395.8 372.6 408.4 396.7 421.2 391.4 401.4 366.0 326.6 289.0 Arts and Recreation Services agreements 300 287 191 174 157 167 156 154 139 149 137 154 139 Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 2.9 Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 3.0 Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 46.1 48.3 44.0 41.3 39.9 42.6 42.1 42.8 41.9 43.0 41.4 44.1 36.5 Other Services agreements 534 536 509 484 449 437 438 424 407 405 395 386 372 Other Services AAWI (%) 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.1 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 Other Services duration (yrs) 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.6 Other Services employees ('000) 38.8 40.1 41.0 39.9 36.3 33.7 39.0 39.8 44.0 47.6 48.2 48.6 43.7 All sector agreements 23068 23249 22436 20766 19063 18960 18867 16367 15234 14594 14297 14460 14298 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 All sectors employees ('000) 2496.6 2615.4 2631.8 2534.2 2330.9 2416.5 2428.0 2422.7 2187.0 2272.8 2197.9 2170.2 2023.2



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Table 9: Agreements, by ANZSIC Division, expiring by quarter (September quarter 2016 – September quarter 2019) FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 15 8 6 15 13 11 8 12 12 8 6 13 4 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 3.5 2.9 3.2 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.6 3.0 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.6 0.3 0.2 1.3 0.4 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.9 1.2 0.1 1.7 0.5 Mining agreements 32 39 29 44 38 35 18 49 44 38 16 19 11 Mining AAWI (%) 4.2 2.5 3.7 3.6 2.6 3.5 1.8 3.7 2.2 1.9 2.0 1.4 2.6 Mining employees ('000) 3.2 5.1 5.2 4.6 3.9 3.3 1.9 6.2 5.2 3.9 1.2 3.6 1.1 Manufacturing agreements 238 213 168 346 202 185 149 219 142 141 87 88 33 Manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 3.1 2.8 3.0 2.7 2.8 2.7 2.8 Manufacturing employees ('000) 18.4 10.5 12.2 17.9 14.2 11.3 11.5 18.2 12.1 8.8 3.5 5.3 1.8 Non-metal manufacturing agreements 140 142 107 208 137 120 101 152 88 83 48 62 25 Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.6 3.0 2.6 2.8 2.7 2.8 Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 10.3 6.5 9.4 11.9 9.5 8.4 7.6 12.9 5.8 5.9 2.5 4.3 1.7 Metal manufacturing agreements 98 71 61 138 65 65 48 67 54 58 39 26 8 Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.2 2.9 2.7 3.0 2.2 2.9 3.6 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.7 3.0 4.9 Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 8.2 4.0 2.8 6.0 4.7 2.9 3.9 5.3 6.3 2.9 1.1 1.0 0.1 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 42 28 21 44 46 36 35 46 26 25 24 17 7 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 4.5 4.0 3.5 2.4 3.5 3.3 3.0 2.7 3.1 3.8 2.4 2.9 4.3 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 2.6 7.5 0.9 5.4 6.7 2.7 12.0 4.0 1.6 1.3 1.5 0.7 0.2 Construction agreements 304 260 204 477 255 275 305 274 251 225 156 174 276 Construction AAWI (%) 3.7 3.8 3.6 4.4 4.6 3.6 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.1 3.3 2.8 4.3 Construction employees ('000) 7.6 5.3 4.3 11.5 13.2 10.1 8.5 6.5 6.7 5.3 3.1 3.5 7.6

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FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19

Wholesale Trade agreements 61 38 37 64 44 38 42 40 43 14 13 14 6 Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 3.2 3.1 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.4 2.9 2.7 2.2 2.7 Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 5.9 1.6 2.9 3.2 4.8 1.7 4.5 1.9 4.4 1.1 0.8 0.5 0.2 Retail Trade agreements 23 17 11 33 27 12 18 26 19 13 8 14 7 Retail Trade AAWI (%) 2.9 2.9 3.1 2.6 2.6 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.7 2.5 2.3 1.8 3.0 Retail Trade employees ('000) 29.8 4.1 5.9 6.2 7.3 6.7 10.5 3.1 11.3 1.0 0.7 2.6 0.9 Accommodation and Food Services agreements 31 36 27 44 40 29 32 24 40 26 18 22 13 Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 2.5 3.0 2.5 2.9 3.1 3.1 2.8 2.8 2.6 3.0 2.5 2.5 2.8 Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 2.0 3.1 4.5 109.4 3.7 6.4 2.1 1.3 2.6 2.1 1.8 1.3 0.4 Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 83 99 71 166 88 79 101 109 90 92 60 47 30 Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.2 3.1 3.8 3.5 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.2 2.7 2.9 3.6 2.3 Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 4.5 40.3 6.9 28.3 20.8 9.0 8.5 8.0 12.3 5.5 9.7 9.8 1.4 Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 9 8 5 16 12 5 5 16 5 3 2 1 0 Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 2.5 2.0 1.9 2.5 2.5 2.2 3.3 2.4 3.0 2.6 * 3.1 * Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 0.7 1.0 0.6 1.1 1.0 0.1 1.3 0.4 29.3 5.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 Financial and Insurance Services agreements 8 8 7 19 17 12 1 15 11 7 2 5 4 Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 3.2 3.1 3.6 2.9 2.8 3.0 * 2.6 2.9 3.1 2.0 3.3 3.0 Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 1.4 2.0 1.3 4.7 23.0 1.4 0.0 3.7 1.7 47.1 0.0 10.2 1.4 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 24 23 10 20 28 23 25 19 23 18 14 7 11 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 3.7 2.4 3.3 3.6 3.0 3.5 3.2 3.1 2.9 3.3 2.4 2.0 3.9 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.6 1.8 0.2 0.4 1.2 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.2 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 27 32 18 51 36 35 25 33 23 24 26 15 13 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 3.3 3.6 4.9 3.6 3.3 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.8 3.1 3.3 2.6 2.4 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 5.4 2.4 0.8 6.3 2.6 3.9 2.6 1.6 1.6 1.4 2.8 4.1 0.4

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FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19

Administrative and Support Services agreements 29 32 27 58 65 36 31 34 43 31 22 21 32 Administrative and Support Services AAWI(%) 3.6 3.9 4.0 3.1 3.5 3.8 3.5 2.9 3.0 3.5 2.3 3.0 3.6 Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 1.7 4.7 2.0 2.7 6.4 3.7 1.3 3.6 5.4 2.4 1.0 2.4 1.2 Public Administration and Safety agreements 35 32 22 103 32 36 18 51 30 36 41 30 6 Public Administration and Safety AAWI(%) 3.5 2.9 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.6 3.3 2.7 2.9 2.2 2.1 2.3 2.5 Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 5.9 11.9 2.9 42.0 20.7 7.0 3.2 6.1 11.4 14.3 22.0 11.1 1.3 Education agreements 22 82 63 50 21 183 30 29 20 47 18 5 8 Education AAWI(%) 3.9 3.0 3.6 3.8 3.2 3.4 3.2 3.8 3.1 2.9 2.8 4.0 2.9 Education employees ('000) 19.2 142.5 73.8 70.1 3.2 17.4 25.8 8.4 2.2 4.3 1.3 0.4 7.1 Health and Community Services agreements 97 125 71 384 103 121 67 123 45 60 32 24 14 Health and Community Services AAWI(%) 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.1 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.9 3.0 Health and Community Services employees ('000) 20.5 25.6 21.4 76.9 14.7 23.3 15.1 30.6 10.8 8.1 9.6 23.6 2.4 Arts and Recreation Services agreements 17 16 8 12 6 9 9 24 8 11 2 5 3 Arts and Recreation Services AAWI(%) 3.7 2.2 3.1 2.6 4.8 3.2 2.9 3.2 2.8 5.4 3.3 1.7 * Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 10.0 2.8 0.7 9.4 0.2 1.0 2.1 6.3 2.6 1.3 0.1 1.0 2.0 Other Services agreements 22 35 24 55 31 42 13 36 16 17 22 16 9 Other Services AAWI(%) 2.8 3.1 2.5 2.8 3.6 3.0 3.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.4 3.0 2.9 Other Services employees ('000) 1.2 2.3 5.2 7.7 1.3 8.9 1.1 11.9 0.6 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.4 All sector agreements 1119 1131 829 2001 1104 1202 932 1179 891 836 569 537 487 All sectors AAWI(%) 3.3 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.7 3.1 All sectors employees ('000) 141.2 274.8 151.8 408.9 149.3 118.9 113.0 122.9 123.2 115.8 60.7 82.8 30.4



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Table 10: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

ACT agreements 45 21 29 39 23 28 10 17 16 12 16 20 14 ACT AAWI (%) 4.0 4.0 3.6 2.8 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.5 3.0 2.8 2.7 2.2 3.0 ACT duration (yrs) 2.8 1.6 2.8 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.9 2.5 2.2 2.6 1.9 ACT employees ('000) 0.9 2.7 9.8 9.9 1.7 5.3 2.1 1.5 5.7 0.5 5.2 0.9 0.5 NSW agreements 395 310 208 217 282 346 213 212 299 244 182 216 195 NSW AAWI (%) 3.4 3.3 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.4 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 2.9 2.7 NSW duration (yrs) 2.5 2.0 2.6 2.8 2.5 2.6 2.3 2.4 2.6 2.1 2.7 2.5 2.6 NSW employees ('000) 22.4 33.5 36.3 16.1 30.5 57.4 34.0 17.1 28.8 21.9 15.3 11.5 16.0 NT agreements 33 39 26 25 32 32 29 22 15 20 14 12 16 NT AAWI (%) 4.1 5.1 4.5 3.2 3.5 3.1 3.8 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.2 3.3 3.2 NT duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.8 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.0 2.9 2.4 3.2 2.5 1.9 NT employees ('000) 1.6 1.2 0.5 0.7 1.8 4.1 4.7 1.8 1.2 1.9 1.2 1.1 1.2 Qld agreements 418 291 184 217 220 247 199 144 208 210 167 190 192 Qld AAWI (%) 3.1 3.5 3.1 3.1 3.9 3.5 3.3 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 3.1 2.6 Qld duration (yrs) 2.4 2.4 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.8 2.6 2.7 Qld employees ('000) 26.6 18.6 24.5 20.7 42.6 31.8 14.7 24.9 25.2 20.8 15.5 13.4 34.1 SA agreements 132 99 69 85 103 106 62 60 74 67 70 58 72 SA AAWI (%) 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.5 3.4 3.6 2.9 3.0 2.7 3.2 2.6 2.6 2.3 SA duration (yrs) 2.4 2.1 2.7 3.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.0 2.5 1.7 2.8 SA employees ('000) 8.0 11.1 5.6 10.4 7.0 12.6 4.4 6.4 3.8 4.6 3.7 4.6 5.6 Tas agreements 40 39 26 30 35 46 33 39 40 34 20 35 28 Tas AAWI (%) 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.3 2.8 3.3 3.9 3.3 2.8 2.4 2.2 2.6 2.5 Tas duration (yrs) 2.5 1.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.4 1.9 2.3 2.1 2.5 2.1 2.6 Tas employees ('000) 2.4 3.2 1.5 2.5 3.5 5.2 2.4 1.9 6.3 3.2 1.1 2.3 1.7 Vic agreements 643 485 324 328 422 382 358 327 364 305 234 287 852 Vic AAWI (%) 3.6 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.6 3.0 3.2 5.1 Vic duration (yrs) 3.1 2.8 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.9 2.6 2.2 3.0 3.3 2.4 Vic employees ('000) 103.9 82.4 43.1 35.4 48.8 34.5 37.6 20.3 26.4 40.8 33.8 58.9 30.5

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WA agreements 313 191 216 196 174 225 152 187 157 143 115 97 89 WA AAWI (%) 3.8 4.0 4.3 3.9 3.8 3.4 3.0 3.0 3.2 2.9 3.0 2.5 2.2 WA duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.5 WA employees ('000) 28.6 10.7 17.2 11.8 16.9 20.9 9.6 9.9 13.2 10.4 8.3 8.3 9.2 Multi-state agreements 195 172 157 172 222 198 147 144 195 240 184 234 228 Multi-state AAWI (%) 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.2 2.9 3.5 3.0 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 Multi-state duration (yrs) 3.5 2.4 3.0 3.1 2.3 2.3 2.8 2.7 2.1 2.8 2.9 3.0 2.9 Multi-state employees ('000) 197.9 87.5 43.6 34.4 70.3 84.6 19.7 14.3 83.3 120.4 29.4 54.0 46.1 Other agreements 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Other AAWI (%) * * * * * * * * * * 2.1 * * Other duration (yrs) 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 0.0 0.0 Other employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 All sector agreements 2214 1647 1239 1310 1513 1610 1203 1152 1368 1275 1003 1149 1686 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.6 All sectors employees ('000) 392.3 251.0 182.1 142.3 223.0 256.4 129.2 98.3 193.9 224.5 113.5 154.9 145.0 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. Figures for State and Territory agreements are based on intra-State agreements only. 5. Multiple State agreements are those covering more than one State and include Australia-wide agreements. 6. Other includes agreements operating in Australian external territories and agreements where the State/Territory status has not been identified.


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Table 11: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

ACT agreements 413 410 405 377 307 318 315 319 310 298 229 204 186 ACT AAWI (%) 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.9 ACT duration (yrs) 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 ACT employees ('000) 28.0 30.1 39.1 47.9 39.5 35.5 37.1 36.1 40.8 40.3 43.3 43.5 37.4 NSW agreements 3749 3771 3548 3372 2882 2940 2919 2899 2674 2689 2670 2694 2578 NSW AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 NSW duration (yrs) 2.8 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 NSW employees ('000) 284.3 293.0 297.1 295.5 273.3 290.7 307.7 314.7 271.0 280.0 278.9 281.7 269.9 NT agreements 370 385 381 378 368 386 387 395 383 388 382 376 343 NT AAWI (%) 3.9 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.7 NT duration (yrs) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 NT employees ('000) 23.2 24.0 22.1 21.8 17.0 20.1 22.5 23.0 22.3 23.2 24.0 24.7 23.6 Qld agreements 4699 4688 4417 3850 3502 3453 3289 2981 2683 2476 2334 2341 2207 Qld AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 Qld duration (yrs) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 Qld employees ('000) 290.0 290.2 289.6 278.1 288.1 296.8 288.4 295.7 259.9 254.9 238.8 241.8 233.0 SA agreements 1338 1306 1191 1109 1012 1042 1016 1016 883 891 879 885 828 SA AAWI (%) 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.1 SA duration (yrs) 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.8 SA employees ('000) 69.1 75.0 73.1 74.3 67.9 77.3 75.8 79.3 67.3 68.0 65.6 66.5 62.4 Tas agreements 516 505 461 385 324 335 335 365 338 351 339 364 328 Tas AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 Tas duration (yrs) 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.7 Tas employees ('000) 27.7 28.2 25.7 25.2 19.7 23.2 24.1 25.7 28.0 30.3 29.5 31.2 27.1 Vic agreements 6705 6880 6846 6640 6320 6070 6183 4004 3680 3251 3187 3202 3571 Vic AAWI (%) 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Vic duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Vic employees ('000) 492.8 551.6 573.1 585.9 590.5 604.9 626.4 609.8 582.3 586.6 558.9 542.2 513.6

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FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

WA agreements 3053 3046 3009 2584 2385 2369 2342 2400 2291 2227 2191 2176 2014 WA AAWI (%) 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.4 WA duration (yrs) 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 WA employees ('000) 181.2 175.6 180.1 167.4 158.9 169.9 170.0 173.7 170.0 170.6 169.6 169.2 154.2 Multi-state agreements 2215 2251 2171 2063 1957 2042 2076 1983 1989 2022 2084 2216 2241 Multi-state AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 Multi-state duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 Multi-state employees ('000) 1099.6 1147.0 1131.1 1037.2 875.0 897.0 875.0 863.7 744.7 818.5 788.8 768.9 701.5 Other agreements 10 7 7 8 6 5 5 5 3 1 2 2 2 Other AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 5.0 * 2.1 2.1 2.1 Other duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Other employees ('000) 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.7 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6 All sector agreements 23068 23249 22436 20766 19063 18960 18867 16367 15234 14594 14297 14460 14298 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 All sectors duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 All sectors employees ('000) 2496.6 2615.4 2631.8 2534.2 2330.9 2416.5 2428.0 2422.7 2187.0 2272.8 2197.9 2170.2 2023.2 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. Figures for State and Territory agreements are based on intra-State agreements only. 5. Multiple State agreements are those covering more than one State and include Australia-wide agreements. 6. Other includes agreements operating in Australian external territories and agreements where the State/Territory status has not been identified.


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Table 12: Agreements approved in the quarter – non-quantifiable wage increases, by reason (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2016)

Non-quantifiable reason Agreement Type Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Linked to minimum wage

Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 74 68 64 68 Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 3.2 1.5 5.8 3.1 Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 4 0 1 0 Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.0 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 1 1 0 2 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0 Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Sub-total agreements 79 69 65 70 Sub-total employees (‘000) 3.5 1.8 5.9 3.1

Linked to CPI


Inconsistent Increase


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Performance Linked


Other Reason


Total non-quantifiable agreements 473 326 398 381 Total employees covered by non-quantifiable agreements 95.6 23.1 57.5 57.2

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Quantifiable agreements

Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 767 645 720 1275 Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 118.3 88.0 94.9 81.8 Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 30 28 30 25 Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 1.6 1.0 1.7 1.1 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 5 4 1 5 Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 9.0 1.4 0.8 4.9 Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0 Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Total quantifiable agreements 802 677 751 1305 Total employees covered by quantifiable agreements (‘000) 128.9 90.4 97.4 87.8 1 Non-quantifiable wage agreements are those which do not provide a consistent wage increase for all employees or link wage increases to other methods. Refer to the technical notes for further explanation.

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Table 13: Agreements approved in the quarter, by union coverage (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Agreements (union covered) 1640 1155 878 884 1022 1124 800 789 903 882 663 799 1314 AAWI (%)(union covered) 3.4 3.4 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 Duration (yrs) (union covered) 3.2 2.4 2.8 2.8 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.3 2.4 2.8 3.0 2.6 Employees ('000) (union covered) 367.0 236.1 168.8 122.3 202.7 240.5 114.7 89.3 168.0 177.9 102.3 143.1 132.5 Agreements (no union covered) 574 492 361 426 491 486 403 363 465 393 340 350 372 AAWI (%)(no union covered) 3.1 3.2 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.4 2.5 Duration (yrs) (no union covered) 3.1 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.1 3.4 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.1 Employees ('000) (no union covered) 25.2 14.8 13.3 20.0 20.3 15.8 14.4 9.0 25.9 46.7 11.3 11.8 12.5 All agreements 2214 1647 1239 1310 1513 1610 1203 1152 1368 1275 1003 1149 1686 Overall AAWI (%) 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 Overall duration (yrs) 3.2 2.5 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.6 All employees ('000) 392.3 251.0 182.1 142.3 223.0 256.4 129.2 98.3 193.9 224.5 113.5 154.9 145.0 Notes:



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Table 14: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by union coverage (September quarter 2013 – September quarter 2016) FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER Sep-13 Dec-13 Mar-14 Jun-14 Sep-14 Dec-14 Mar-15 Jun-15 Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16

Agreements (union covered) 13366 13889 13878 14141 13254 13240 13134 10609 9674 9032 8762 8909 8932 AAWI (%)(union covered) 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 Duration (yrs) (union covered) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 Employees ('000) (union covered) 2185.3 2311.7 2348.5 2308.3 2132.7 2217.1 2225.2 2220.3 1981.6 2031.8 1954.9 1927.0 1791.3 Agreements (no union covered) 9702 9360 8558 6625 5809 5720 5733 5758 5560 5562 5535 5551 5366 AAWI (%)(no union covered) 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 Duration (yrs) (no union covered) 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 Employees ('000) (no union covered) 311.3 303.7 283.3 226.0 198.2 199.4 202.7 202.4 205.4 240.9 243.1 243.2 231.9 All agreements 23068 23249 22436 20766 19063 18960 18867 16367 15234 14594 14297 14460 14298 Overall AAWI (%) 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 Overall duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 All employees ('000) 2496.6 2615.4 2631.8 2534.2 2330.9 2416.5 2428.0 2422.7 2187.0 2272.8 2197.9 2170.2 2023.2 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. Under the Fair Work Act 2009, a union can be covered by an agreement even if it was not involved in the bargaining process. This data does not distinguish between coverage and bargaining

presence. Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Employment. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

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Table 15: Agreements approved in the September quarter 2016, covering 2000 employees or more Agreement

ID Title Employees AAWI ANZSIC States

AE421335 NAB Enterprise Agreement 2016 31087 * Financial and Insurance Services Aus

AE420762 CATHOLIC EMPLOYING AUTHORITIES SINGLE ENTERPRISE COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT - DIOCESAN SCHOOLS OF QUEENSLAND 2015-2019 17936 2.5 Education and Training Qld

AE420397 TAFE Commission of NSW Administrative, Support and Related Employees Enterprise Agreement 2016 4874 2.5 Public Administration and

Safety NSW

AE420766 Catholic Employing Authorities Single Enterprise Collective Agreement - Religious Institute Schools of Queensland 2015-2019 4639 2.4 Education and Training Qld

AE419706 VicRoads EA8 2530 3.4 Public Administration and Safety Vic

Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * The asterisk denotes that the wage increases in the agreement cannot be quantified and so no AAWI is calculable.


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Table 16: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division, September quarter 2016 FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 0 9 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) * 2.0 * * 2.2 3.2 3.0 2.1 * * 2.4 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 0.0 2.2 0.0 4.0 2.9 2.2 3.5 3.3 0.0 0.0 3.3 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 Mining agreements 0 6 0 7 3 0 2 2 6 0 26 Mining AAWI (%) * 1.4 * 1.1 2.7 * 6.8 * 2.7 * 1.6 Mining duration (yrs) 0.0 1.9 0.0 3.2 4.0 0.0 2.8 3.9 2.6 0.0 2.8 Mining employees ('000) 0.0 1.9 0.0 0.5 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.5 0.0 4.1 Manufacturing agreements 0 48 2 35 13 9 86 8 14 0 215 Manufacturing AAWI (%) * 2.6 4.0 2.3 1.7 2.0 3.9 1.6 3.1 * 2.9 Manufacturing duration (yrs) 0.0 2.7 3.6 2.1 3.1 2.5 2.3 2.3 1.5 0.0 2.5 Manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 2.3 0.1 2.3 2.0 0.4 3.2 0.2 0.8 0.0 11.3 Non-metal manufacturing agreements 0 32 0 25 5 7 44 4 2 0 119 Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) * 2.6 * 2.5 2.0 1.9 3.5 1.6 2.1 * 2.8 Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 0.0 2.8 0.0 2.1 3.2 2.5 2.5 2.8 3.7 0.0 2.6 Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 1.8 0.0 1.5 1.5 0.4 1.7 0.0 0.1 0.0 7.0 Metal manufacturing agreements 0 16 2 10 8 2 42 4 12 0 96 Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) * 2.3 4.0 2.0 1.6 2.4 4.5 * 3.3 * 3.0 Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 0.0 2.6 3.6 2.1 2.9 2.7 2.2 2.2 1.4 0.0 2.2 Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 0.6 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.1 1.5 0.2 0.8 0.0 4.3 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 1 6 0 5 3 0 7 4 1 0 27 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 2.7 2.5 * 2.5 2.7 * 5.5 2.1 2.5 * 3.0 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 2.5 2.8 0.0 2.5 1.9 0.0 2.1 2.7 2.0 0.0 2.3 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.3 Construction agreements 5 45 3 62 17 3 553 23 114 0 825 Construction AAWI (%) 3.9 5.0 5.1 5.0 2.7 4.4 6.4 2.4 2.9 * 6.0 Construction duration (yrs) 3.1 2.4 3.0 3.2 2.4 1.7 2.1 2.6 3.3 0.0 2.3 Construction employees ('000) 0.1 0.7 0.0 1.0 0.5 0.1 13.3 0.9 2.1 0.0 18.7

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FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Wholesale Trade agreements 2 10 2 11 3 1 22 1 8 0 60 Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 2.8 2.7 2.2 2.6 2.2 1.8 4.0 4.3 2.6 * 3.1 Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 2.8 1.7 2.5 2.2 3.0 2.0 2.2 3.0 2.3 0.0 2.1 Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 0.1 0.7 0.0 0.8 0.1 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.0 2.7 Retail Trade agreements 0 1 1 2 0 0 6 5 2 0 17 Retail Trade AAWI (%) * * 3.4 3.0 * * 6.0 3.0 2.6 * 4.2 Retail Trade duration (yrs) 0.0 3.0 2.6 3.1 0.0 0.0 2.4 3.1 3.7 0.0 2.9 Retail Trade employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 Accommodation and Food Services agreements 1 8 0 2 0 0 3 1 12 0 27 Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) * 2.0 * 1.1 * * 2.5 * * * 2.1 Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 3.0 3.9 0.0 2.8 0.0 0.0 2.5 3.6 3.8 0.0 3.5 Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.9 0.0 2.0 Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 0 20 0 10 5 1 23 7 19 0 85 Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) * 2.9 * 2.6 2.4 2.4 4.0 4.7 2.9 * 3.4 Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 0.0 2.7 0.0 2.9 2.5 3.1 2.6 2.0 2.5 0.0 2.5 Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.0 1.7 1.1 1.5 0.0 5.5 Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 6 Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) * * * * * * 3.8 2.7 2.2 * 2.4 Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 0.0 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.4 3.3 1.9 0.0 2.2 Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.6 Financial and Insurance Services agreements 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 0 7 0 13 Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) * 1.8 * * * 2.0 1.7 * 2.2 * 2.1 Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 31.9 0.0 32.0 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 0 1 0 2 0 0 24 1 3 0 31 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) * * * 1.9 * * 6.3 * 2.7 * 6.0 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 0.0 1.9 0.0 2.3 0.0 0.0 2.2 4.0 3.9 0.0 2.3 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.6 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 0 4 1 5 0 1 16 2 9 0 38 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) * * 5.1 2.9 * 3.6 3.1 .8 2.8 * 2.7 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs) 0.0 2.5 2.3 2.6 0.0 3.0 2.7 1.0 3.1 0.0 2.7 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.2 0.8 0.0 2.2

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FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Administrative and Support Services agreements 1 9 2 3 1 0 33 6 9 0 64 Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) * 2.8 2.4 1.5 2.9 * 6.2 2.1 2.6 * 3.4 Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 4.0 2.6 3.7 1.9 2.1 0.0 2.0 3.3 2.8 0.0 2.7 Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.0 3.1 Public Administration and Safety agreements 1 8 2 9 1 4 20 11 3 0 59 Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 1.9 2.5 * 2.4 3.0 2.7 3.3 2.5 1.8 * 2.9 Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 1.1 2.9 1.8 2.2 4.0 3.2 2.8 2.8 3.1 0.0 2.8 Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 0.0 5.2 0.8 0.6 0.0 0.5 5.4 1.2 0.5 0.0 14.1 Education agreements 1 4 0 12 4 0 7 1 2 0 31 Education AAWI (%) 3.0 2.3 * 2.6 2.4 * 2.6 2.5 3.0 * 2.6 Education duration (yrs) 2.7 2.5 0.0 2.7 1.6 0.0 0.9 2.8 1.0 0.0 2.7 Education employees ('000) 0.0 0.2 0.0 24.9 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0 25.9 Health and Community Services agreements 1 18 2 19 18 5 22 12 11 0 108 Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.0 3.2 3.5 2.3 2.5 2.6 4.7 2.2 2.1 * 3.0 Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 0.8 2.3 0.5 2.6 1.8 2.0 2.9 2.3 2.0 0.0 2.3 Health and Community Services employees ('000) 0.3 2.9 0.2 1.8 1.0 0.5 2.2 4.0 4.5 0.0 17.3 Arts and Recreation Services agreements 0 1 0 2 0 0 8 0 2 0 13 Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) * * * 2.4 * * 3.4 * 2.0 * 2.7 Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 0.0 2.9 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 2.2 0.0 3.3 0.0 2.7 Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.8 Other Services agreements 1 2 1 5 3 2 12 2 4 0 32 Other Services AAWI (%) * 2.7 2.1 3.7 3.5 1.4 3.3 * 2.8 * 2.8 Other Services duration (yrs) 3.0 3.3 4.0 3.3 2.3 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.6 0.0 2.9 Other Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.1 All sector agreements 14 195 16 192 72 28 852 89 228 0 1686 All sectors AAWI (%) 3.0 2.7 3.2 2.6 2.3 2.5 5.1 2.2 2.5 * 3.4 All sectors duration (yrs) 1.9 2.6 1.9 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.9 0.0 2.6 All sectors employees ('000) 0.5 16.0 1.2 34.1 5.6 1.7 30.5 9.2 46.1 0.0 145.0 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. The manufacturing category has been disaggregated into metals and non-metals industries.


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Table 17: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division, September quarter 2016 FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 0 37 2 30 13 10 23 11 10 0 136 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) * 2.8 2.5 2.9 2.5 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.7 * 2.8 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 0.0 3.0 4.0 3.6 3.1 2.5 2.9 3.1 3.5 0.0 3.2 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.0 2.8 0.0 1.5 0.4 0.7 1.3 0.5 1.7 0.0 8.9 Mining agreements 1 97 10 94 23 12 21 80 89 1 428 Mining AAWI (%) * 2.3 3.3 2.1 2.8 3.0 2.7 3.7 3.4 2.1 2.7 Mining duration (yrs) 0.9 2.8 3.3 3.3 3.8 3.2 3.2 3.7 3.7 2.9 3.4 Mining employees ('000) 0.0 10.3 1.2 11.5 1.4 0.8 1.2 13.1 10.9 0.1 50.6 Manufacturing agreements 8 504 19 370 170 65 800 188 163 0 2287 Manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.7 2.7 4.5 2.8 2.6 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 * 2.9 Manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.8 3.6 3.0 3.1 2.9 2.8 3.2 3.2 0.0 2.9 Manufacturing employees ('000) 0.2 31.3 0.5 24.8 11.2 3.8 45.4 9.2 20.5 0.0 147.0 Non-metal manufacturing agreements 5 349 10 242 113 50 514 93 83 0 1459 Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.7 2.8 4.0 2.8 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.8 * 2.9 Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 3.3 3.1 3.2 2.9 2.8 3.1 3.1 0.0 2.9 Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.1 22.9 0.2 19.1 8.2 2.8 31.5 4.8 10.3 0.0 100.0 Metal manufacturing agreements 3 155 9 128 57 15 286 95 80 0 828 Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.9 2.7 5.0 2.8 2.2 2.8 3.0 3.3 3.1 * 2.9 Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 3.1 2.7 3.8 2.9 2.9 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.3 0.0 3.0 Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.1 8.4 0.3 5.7 3.0 1.0 13.9 4.5 10.1 0.0 47.0 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 7 82 7 83 30 10 92 64 24 0 399 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 3.0 2.6 2.8 3.0 2.7 2.3 3.4 3.2 4.4 * 3.1 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 2.7 2.8 1.9 2.8 2.3 2.5 2.8 3.5 2.7 0.0 2.9 Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 1.2 7.3 0.2 11.1 2.9 1.0 7.2 10.6 5.1 0.0 46.5 Construction agreements 44 611 153 574 142 41 1025 790 957 0 4337 Construction AAWI (%) 3.9 4.3 4.9 4.3 3.5 2.9 5.5 3.4 3.3 * 4.3 Construction duration (yrs) 3.1 2.8 3.9 3.1 3.1 2.5 2.5 3.1 3.5 0.0 3.0 Construction employees ('000) 0.6 16.1 2.3 20.8 4.2 1.2 23.1 20.8 22.3 0.0 111.5

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FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Wholesale Trade agreements 6 89 8 56 28 14 128 65 78 0 472 Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 2.8 3.2 5.0 2.9 2.8 2.6 3.1 3.3 2.6 * 3.0 Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 3.0 2.5 3.7 2.7 2.9 2.5 2.8 3.0 3.3 0.0 2.9 Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 0.2 4.0 0.3 3.4 1.3 0.7 7.8 4.1 9.9 0.0 31.8 Retail Trade agreements 0 30 3 25 15 2 61 51 53 0 240 Retail Trade AAWI (%) * 3.0 5.4 3.3 3.2 2.5 2.6 3.2 3.0 * 3.0 Retail Trade duration (yrs) 0.0 2.6 3.9 3.3 3.5 3.1 3.1 3.6 3.2 0.0 3.2 Retail Trade employees ('000) 0.0 1.6 0.4 3.6 1.4 0.1 8.6 3.6 43.5 0.0 62.7 Accommodation and Food Services agreements 14 111 9 76 31 4 66 62 47 0 420 Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 2.5 2.7 3.5 2.7 3.5 3.0 2.8 3.2 2.9 * 2.8 Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 3.6 3.4 3.9 3.6 3.6 2.8 3.4 3.8 3.8 0.0 3.8 Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 0.8 10.3 0.4 4.0 0.6 0.4 4.0 6.8 116.8 0.0 144.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 4 223 26 178 87 21 237 168 227 0 1171 Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 2.0 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.2 2.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 * 3.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.6 3.1 2.8 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.3 0.0 3.2 Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 0.1 23.6 1.1 22.3 4.9 1.1 20.2 9.1 89.9 0.0 172.3 Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 0 20 0 7 3 5 25 9 23 0 92 Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) * 2.7 * 2.4 3.0 2.0 2.8 2.5 2.9 * 2.9 Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 0.0 2.1 0.0 1.8 3.1 2.9 2.7 3.1 2.9 0.0 2.9 Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.9 0.8 0.4 37.8 0.0 40.9 Financial and Insurance Services agreements 0 20 2 5 5 6 37 5 44 0 124 Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) * 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.0 2.4 3.0 2.9 2.8 * 2.9 Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 0.0 2.7 2.8 2.7 3.2 2.3 2.9 3.1 2.9 0.0 2.9 Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 0.0 1.7 0.2 1.0 0.0 0.2 2.4 2.3 121.6 0.0 129.5 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 0 28 7 82 11 4 54 52 34 0 272 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) * 3.8 4.9 2.8 3.0 3.2 4.0 3.2 2.3 * 3.1 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 0.0 3.3 3.9 3.6 2.8 2.6 2.9 3.3 3.8 0.0 3.4 Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.0 0.6 0.1 1.6 0.2 0.1 1.6 1.3 2.6 0.0 8.1 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 5 64 13 53 12 5 75 76 100 0 403 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 2.8 3.1 5.1 2.9 3.1 3.4 3.2 3.5 3.1 * 3.2 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs) 3.0 2.8 3.7 3.3 2.7 3.7 2.9 3.6 2.8 0.0 3.0 Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 0.2 3.3 0.9 2.1 0.5 0.1 2.4 5.3 23.3 0.0 38.0

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FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-

state Other Total

Administrative and Support Services agreements 14 93 10 57 17 6 100 88 161 0 546 Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) 3.5 3.9 4.8 2.5 2.9 3.0 3.7 3.7 3.4 * 3.5 Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 3.4 3.2 3.9 3.1 3.5 3.2 2.8 3.3 3.4 0.0 3.3 Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 0.2 3.9 0.5 2.8 0.6 0.4 8.4 7.0 19.7 0.0 43.6 Public Administration and Safety agreements 31 50 24 47 13 28 153 97 75 0 518 Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 2.8 2.6 3.4 2.8 2.6 2.4 3.3 2.9 2.3 * 2.9 Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 2.9 2.7 2.6 3.2 3.2 2.7 3.3 2.9 3.2 0.0 3.1 Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 25.4 9.3 10.1 4.4 0.3 2.5 105.4 10.7 52.8 0.0 220.8 Education agreements 13 147 10 217 40 17 97 38 25 0 604 Education AAWI (%) 2.6 3.4 3.1 3.1 3.7 3.2 3.7 3.6 3.5 * 3.4 Education duration (yrs) 2.2 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.1 3.1 2.3 2.1 0.0 2.7 Education employees ('000) 4.7 66.9 1.8 64.6 16.1 3.8 156.2 7.5 75.9 0.0 397.6 Health and Community Services agreements 26 284 24 172 156 56 444 118 58 0 1338 Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.9 3.1 3.4 3.6 3.1 * 3.2 Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.8 2.6 2.6 3.1 2.9 2.8 0.0 2.8 Health and Community Services employees ('000) 3.4 60.8 1.8 35.6 13.3 7.6 97.4 33.4 35.7 0.0 289.0 Arts and Recreation Services agreements 0 22 3 27 9 6 44 10 18 0 139 Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) * 2.5 3.4 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1 * 2.9 Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 0.0 3.4 2.2 3.3 2.4 2.8 2.6 3.2 3.2 0.0 3.0 Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 0.0 6.5 1.1 6.3 1.5 0.8 8.1 6.7 5.4 0.0 36.5 Other Services agreements 13 66 13 54 23 16 89 42 55 1 372 Other Services AAWI (%) 3.3 2.7 3.7 2.4 3.1 2.6 3.5 3.3 3.1 * 2.9 Other Services duration (yrs) 3.0 2.4 3.4 2.5 2.7 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.5 3.0 2.6 Other Services employees ('000) 0.5 8.9 0.7 11.1 1.4 0.8 11.9 1.8 6.2 0.4 43.7 All sector agreements 186 2578 343 2207 828 328 3571 2014 2241 2 14298 All sectors AAWI (%) 2.9 3.1 3.7 3.1 3.1 2.8 3.5 3.4 3.0 2.1 3.2 All sectors duration (yrs) 2.8 2.7 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 All sectors employees ('000) 37.4 269.9 23.6 233.0 62.4 27.1 513.6 154.2 701.5 0.6 2023.2 Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage agreements. 3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable. 4. The manufacturing category has been disaggregated into metals and non-metals industries.


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Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining - Technical Notes

The Workplace Agreements Database Data presented in the Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining report (Trends) is drawn from the Workplace Agreements Database (WAD), which is maintained by the Workplace Relations Policy Group of the Department of Employment. The WAD contains information on all known federal enterprise agreements that have operated since the introduction of the Enterprise Bargaining Principle in October 1991 and that have been subsequently provided to the Department of Employment. The WAD covers general details (such as sector, ANZSIC, duration, employees covered), wage details (quantum and timing of increases) and employment conditions.

Agreements included in the WAD The following agreements are included in the WAD and thus in Trends:

• For agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 or before the Work Choices amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 2006 (WR Act), those that have been certified by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission or approved by the Fair Work Commission (FWC).

• For agreements made under the Work Choices amendments but before the introduction of the Fairness Test, those that were lodged with the Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA).

• For agreements made under the fairness test, those that were lodged with the Workplace Authority. However, agreements were subsequently deleted and do not appear in the data if they ceased to operate because they did not pass the fairness test.

• For agreements made under the Transition to Forward with Fairness amendments to the WR Act, union collective and employee collective agreements that were approved by the Workplace Authority. Union greenfields and employer greenfields were included when they were lodged, but were deleted if they ceased to operate because they did not pass the no-disadvantage test.

Wider context for Trends data About one third of all employees in the Australian labour market (as measured by the ABS 2014 Employee Earnings and Hours survey) are covered by federal enterprise agreements. The table below shows the growth in coverage by federally registered agreements.

Instrument providing rate of pay All employees

2010 2012 2014 (%) (%) (%)

Award 15.2 16.1 18.8 Collective Agreement (Federally Registered) 31.5 32.0 32.6 Collective Agreement (State Registered) 11.9 9.8 8.6 Collective Agreement (Unregistered) 0.1 0.2 0.2 Individual Agreement (Registered and unregistered) 37.3 38.7 36.4 Owner/managers of incorporated enterprises 4.1 3.3 3.4

Source for Table: ABS, Employee Earnings and Hours, Cat. No. 6306.0, May 2010, May 2012, May 2014, unpublished data. Please note that this is not intended to be analysed as a time series. Note: This table has been revised to include managerial-level employees. This accounts for all differences between this table and tables published in previous Trends reports.

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Presentation of Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining data A typical row of data in Trends appears as follows:

All Industries 1686 Total number of agreements for a given quarter

AAWI (%) 3.4 Average Annualised Wage Increase for the quarter

Duration (yrs) 2.6 Average formal duration per employee for the quarter

Employees ('000) 145.0 Estimated total number of employees covered by the number of agreements in the first row

It is important to note that not all agreements contain quantifiable wage increases and in most cases the AAWI is not derived from the total number of agreements shown in the first row or the total number of employees shown in the third row. A more detailed explanation of why this is the case is provided below under Average annualised wage increases

Employee coverage Information on the number of employees covered by an agreement is drawn from the information provided to FWC (Fair Work Commission), the Workplace Authority or the AIRC (Australian Industrial Relations Commission) by the employer who lodges the agreement.

In the Trends data, the number of employees covered by agreements is presented as an estimated figure, as employee coverage figures are not always provided when an agreement is lodged.

Where an agreement’s employee coverage is not known and the agreement replaces an earlier agreement where employee coverage is known, the employee coverage of the earlier agreement is used. For those agreements still lacking employee coverage a ‘modified mean’ is used to estimate employee coverage. The modified mean is generated for each industry group by current quarter removing the largest 5% and smallest 5% of agreements, and then calculating the mean of the remainder.

As the number of employees covered by an enterprise agreement frequently changes during the life of an agreement due to workforce fluctuations, the total number of employees covered is not necessarily indicative of the total current coverage of enterprise agreements.

Duration of agreements

‘Formal duration’ is the period from certification to expiry in years.

The ‘effective duration’ of each agreement is used to calculate AAWI rather than formal duration (that is, the period from certification to expiry). The effective duration of a wage agreement is the difference in years between: certification, commencement or the date of the first wage increase (whichever is earliest) and expiry date or the date of the last wage increase (whichever is latest) or termination date (where applicable and only if prior to the later of either the expiry date or the date of the last wage increase). Those few agreements with a formal duration of less than one year are deemed to have an effective duration of 12 months.

Average annualised wage increases Estimates of average wage increases are calculated for those federal enterprise agreements that provide quantifiable wage increases over the life of the agreement. Enterprise agreements for which average percentage wage increases could not be quantified (e.g. those with inconsistent increases) are excluded from these estimates.

AAWI data examines only increases to the base rate of pay, and does not take into account allowances and bonus payments that are paid separate to the base wage. The ABS produces a more comprehensive dataset on total labour costs (Labour Price Index): http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/6345.0

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For agreements with quantifiable wage increases, the average annualised wage increase (AAWI) per agreement is calculated using the following formula:

100 × ��(1 + 𝑟𝑖)𝑁

𝑖=1

�

1𝑑

− 1�

ri = % increases of the ith time*

N = the number of increases over the life of the agreement

d = the effective duration of the agreement in years

*(Flat dollar increases are converted to a percentage using average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE), drawn from ABS, 6302.0 - Average Weekly Earnings, Australia) for the relevant ANZSIC industry division and quarter)

AAWI per agreement provides only a simple unweighted average and tends to overstate the average wage increase received by employees. For this reason Trends reports the AAWI per employee, which is calculated by weighting AAWI per agreement by the number of employees covered by that agreement.

The all current wage estimates are the AAWI per employee for all quantifiable federal wage agreements that are current on the last day of the quarter. Current agreements are those agreements that have been approved but have neither been terminated nor nominally expired at a given point in time. An agreement is deemed to be current on its nominal expiry date.

Estimates of AAWI generally exclude increases paid in the form of conditional performance pay, one-off bonuses, profit sharing or share acquisition, as these data cannot readily be either quantified or annualised.

Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) From the March quarter 2009, Trends uses ANZSIC 2006 divisions for data presented by industry, while previous releases used ANZSIC 1993 divisions. This change followed the use of ANZSIC 2006 divisions in the August 2009 Average Weekly Earnings survey released by the ABS, from which data about AWOTE are drawn for use in calculating AAWIs.

From the March quarter 2009, historical industry data contained in the Trends report have also been produced using ANZSIC 2006 divisions.

Union Coverage Care should be taken when analysing data in tables 13 and 14, comparing agreements that cover a union and those that do not.

Data about unions covered by agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 may not provide an accurate reflection of union involvement in bargaining for agreements. Under the Fair Work Act 2009 it is possible for a union to have been involved in bargaining for an agreement and then not be covered by the approved agreement. It is also possible for a union to be covered by an agreement because they were a bargaining representative, even if they did not take an active role in the negotiations.

Further, data about non-greenfields agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 that cover a union cannot be directly compared with data about union collective agreements or s.170LJ agreements made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996, which had to be made with a union. While a union may be a bargaining representative, there is no capacity under the Fair Work Act 2009 for agreements (other than greenfields agreements) to be made with a union.

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Non-quantifiable wage increases Wage increases are only recorded in the WAD if the same percentage wage increase that applies to all employees covered by the agreement can be quantified. There are many reasons why wage increases provided for in federal enterprise agreements may not be quantifiable. The list of reasons recorded in the WAD about why wage increases cannot be quantified is as follows:

Reason Definition Inconsistent Increase Percentage wage increases vary between

classifications in the agreement Performance Linked Wage increases are awarded only if certain

productivity improvements are made, or if wage increases are dependent upon individual or company performance

Linked to CPI Wage increases in the agreement are linked to future CPI movements, and cannot be quantified at the time of calculating the AAWIs in this report

Linked to Minimum Wages Wage increases in the agreement are linked to future minimum wage or award wage increase decisions, and cannot be quantified at the time of calculating the AAWIs in this report.

Other Reason Wage increases cannot be quantified due to a reason not elsewhere classified.

Types of Collective Agreements Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining tables 5, 6 and 12 include information about collective agreements broken down by the type of agreement, as determined by the relevant legislation. The following list shows the types of collective agreements available under the two pieces of legislation included in this report.

Collective agreements made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996:

• Employee collective • Employee greenfields • Union collective • Union greenfields

Enterprise agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009

• Single enterprise non-greenfields • Single enterprise greenfields • Multi-enterprise non-greenfields • Multi-enterprise greenfields

Of note, in sections 327-330 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, the primary division between types of agreements was whether they were made with a union or without a union, while the primary division between agreements made under section 172 of the Fair Work Act 2009 is whether they cover a single or multiple enterprises. Under both pieces of legislation, the secondary division is whether or not the agreement is a greenfields agreement, that is, it is made to cover a genuine new enterprise or undertaking for which no persons have been employed who will be covered by the agreement.

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