If you’ve been through enterprise bargaining before, you’ll know the vote itself can carry more weight than people expect. It’s the point where everything gets tested — the process, the communication, and, sometimes, the relationships between parties. A question that comes up often is whether a union can run that vote. Technically, yes. In practice, […]

EBA Vote Timelines: What Actually Happens (and How Long It Takes) When clients ask how long an enterprise agreement vote takes, they are usually expecting a neat answer. There isn’t one. You can run a clean, well-organised vote in just over three weeks. You can also watch the same process stretch out to six weeks […]

Clients often assume there must be a strict rule somewhere saying EBA votes have to be conducted by secret ballot. It sounds like the kind of thing the law would spell out clearly. It doesn’t. That said, if you’ve been around enterprise bargaining for any length of time, you’ll know most experienced practitioners won’t go […]