Final report of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry

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Australia. Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry
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Melbourne : The Commission, c2003
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Reform - Establishing Employment Conditions 1
Reform - Establishing Employment Conditions 3
Contents 5
Abbreviations 9
1 Introduction 11
2 Legislative background 13
3 Nature of the problem 15
4 Application of Parts VIB and VID of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (C’wth) to the building and construction industry 25
5 Submissions received by the Commission on enterprise bargaining and pattern bargaining 29
6 Evidence before the Commission 45
7 Suitability of pattern bargaining in the building and construction industry 47
8 Enterprise bargaining the economic perspective 49
9 Analysis of the contentions regarding pattern bargaining 55
10 Prior reform attempts 63
11 Reform - pattern bargaining 65
12 Coercion to force employers to enter pattern agreements 85
13 Reform - prevention of coercion to enter into pattern agreements 99
14 Project agreements 105
15 Reform - project agreements 131
16 Bargaining fees 135
17 Penalties for unlawful industrial action in support of negotiations constituted by secondary boycotts 137
Schedule A Recent history of statutory schemes dealing with establishment of employment conditions 139
Schedule B Summary of provisions of Workplace Relations Act 1996 (C’wth) dealing with establishment of employment conditions 153
Schedule C Current CFMEU pattern agreements 165
Schedule D Capturing the incidence and types of ‘pattern arrangements’ in construction industry agreements 253
Schedule E VBIA 2002-5 277
Notes to Reform - Establishing Employment Conditions 307

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Australia. Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry & Cole, T. R. H. (2003). Final report of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry Retrieved May 13, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2203647932

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Australia. Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry and Cole, T. R. H. Final report of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry Melbourne: The Commission, 2003. Web. 13 May 2026 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2203647932>

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Australia. Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry & Cole, T. R. H. 2003, Final report of the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry The Commission, Melbourne viewed 13 May 2026 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2203647932

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