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Highlights the limited common ground on contested issues such as enterprise definitions, bargaining units, criteria, agreement terms, and continuation. 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major industrialplayers to the effect that the focus of industrial negotiatons shouldshift to the enterprise level.The ACTU and the CommonwealthGovemment tookproposals onenterprise bargainingto the AustralianIndustrial Relations Commission(AIRC)as part of the Accord MarkVI.  \nBeyond agreement on the shift of focus to the enterprise level thereis,in fact,little common ground,The relationship between enterpriselevel and national wage movements,the definition of enterprise,thecomposition of bargaining units,the criteria for bargaining,the termof enterprise agreements and their continuation are all matters ofcontestation.  \nThe implications ofenterprise bargaining for academic staffwill beaffected significantly by negotiations in the Australian Public Service.Despite anearlycommitmentbythe Commonwealth Governmentandthe Public Sector Union(PSU)to implement the Accord Mark VIwithin the public sector,negotiations broke down late in 1991.Thosenegotiations have resumed subsequently,partly on the framework forpublic sector enterprise bargaining recommended in a report byProfessors Niland,Brown and Hughes(1990).  \nThis article reviews the debate that has emerged on enterprisebargaining in the public sector and explores some of the implicationsfor higher education.  \n# Enterprise bargaining -The AIRC way\n\nDuring the early part of 1991,academic unions were preoccupied  \nwith the Full Bench hearings on Bward restructuring.  \nIn April1991,asthis process wasawaiting determination,the AIRChanded down a National Wage Case decision which rejected thefundamental propositions of the Accord Mark VI put to it by theCommonwealth Govenment and the ACTU,The ACTU respondedwith anger,opening up a period of uncertainty about the futuredirection of wage fixation.The central issues still unresolved are theroles of the Arbitration Commission in national wage movements andthe role of enterprise bargaining in industrial relations.  \nIn August 1991,the Commission agreed to review the Aprildecision.The Cemmission's decision was handed down in October1991.(Print KO300).The Commission noted“a diversity of opinionsandafailure to confront practicalproblems\".However,concedingthat“there is little prospect,it would seem,that further postponement willlead to more fully developed proposals orto the resolution of points ofdisagreement”,the Commission concluded that“we are prepared,onbalance,to determine an enterprise bargaining principle”(p.3),  \nThe Commission set out principles for enterprise bargaining andcanvassed options for processing enterprise agreements under rel-evant sections of the Australian industrial Relztions Act.The Com-missionsetouttwoprincipalcomponents upon whichthemerits ofanyagreement should be tested(p.16).These are:  \n(a)the agreement continues implementation at che enterprise  \nlevel of the award restructuring process  \n(b)wage increases“are based on the actual implementation of  \neficiency measures designed to effect real gains in productiv-  \nPage 18  \nity”.Wage increases have to be separately justified for eachlevel within a classificaticn structure.  \nThe secondprinciple continues the Commission's policy ofprovid-ing a broadly based definition of productivity as in the award restruc-turing principles.In adopting a broader understanding of productivityin the August 1989 Structural Efficiency Principle,the Commissionwas responding to the criticisms of many unions that managementused productivity in the Second-Tier sgreements for 1987-88 in anarrow cost-cutting manner.The October 1991 decision remainsbroadly based,although somewhat inhibited,in comparison with theSEPprinciple,by the statement that wage increases achieved throughenterprise bargaining should \"bejustified by and commensurate withemployees'contributions to enterprise efficiency and productivity\".(p.4).  \nThe decision does not addre","cbCaitw0jIDIFcHJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitw0jIDIFcHJ","pdf",409596,"English","# Enterprise bargaining - The AIRC way\n## National Wage Case decision in 1991\n## Commission principles for enterprise bargaining\n## Consent, arbitration access, and workforce impacts\n## Productivity criteria and implications for public sector and universities","[{\"question\":\"What shift in industrial bargaining does the article describe after 1991?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a growing consensus that the focus of industrial negotiations should shift from national wage movements toward bargaining at the enterprise level.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did negotiations in the public sector break down in late 1991?\",\"answer\":\"The article states that, despite earlier commitments, negotiations broke down when the PSU argued the government was adopting a cost-cutting trade-off approach.\"},{\"question\":\"What determines whether enterprise agreements are continued or can be changed?\",\"answer\":\"The article explains that enterprise agreements would lapse after their stated period unless the parties applied to extend them, 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