Fair Work Act 2009

An employee organisation that is covered by a supported bargaining agreement may apply to the FWC for a variation of the agreement that has the effect that an employer that was not covered by the agreement will be covered by it.

Once the employer is covered by the agreement, any of their employees who the agreement is expressed to cover will also be covered by it. See also the definition of affected employees in section 12.

The application must be accompanied by:

a signed copy of the variation proposed by the employee organisation; and

a copy of the agreement as proposed to be varied; and

any declarations that are required by the procedural rules to accompany the application.

The regulations may, for the purposes of this Subdivision, prescribe requirements relating to the signing of variations.