{"id":1218,"date":"2015-04-20T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T03:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workplaceculturematters.com.au\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2020-04-20T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T03:23:09","slug":"8-consultation-about-major-workplace-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"8. Consultation about major workplace change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[8\u2014Consultation regarding major workplace change renamed and substituted by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwc.gov.au\/awardsandorders\/html\/pr546288.htm\">PR546288<\/a><em>, 8\u2014Consultation renamed and substituted by&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwc.gov.au\/documents\/awardsandorders\/html\/pr610167.htm\">PR610167<\/a><em>&nbsp;ppc 01Nov18]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.1<\/strong>&nbsp;If an employer makes a definite decision to make major changes in production, program, organisation, structure or technology that are likely to have significant effects on employees, the employer must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(a)<\/strong>&nbsp;give notice of the changes to all employees who may be affected by them and their representatives (if any); and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong>&nbsp;discuss with affected employees and their representatives (if any):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(i)<\/strong>&nbsp;the introduction of the changes; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(ii)<\/strong>&nbsp;their likely effect on employees; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(iii)<\/strong>&nbsp;measures to avoid or reduce the adverse effects of the changes on employees; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(c)<\/strong>&nbsp;commence discussions as soon as practicable after a definite decision has been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.2<\/strong>&nbsp;For the purposes of the discussion under clause&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwc.gov.au\/documents\/documents\/modern_awards\/award\/ma000009\/ma000009-10.htm#P249_21934\">8.1(b)<\/a>, the employer must give in writing to the affected employees and their representatives (if any) all relevant information about the changes including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(a)<\/strong>&nbsp;their nature; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong>&nbsp;their expected effect on employees; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(c)<\/strong>&nbsp;any other matters likely to affect employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.3<\/strong>&nbsp;Clause&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwc.gov.au\/documents\/documents\/modern_awards\/award\/ma000009\/ma000009-10.htm#P254_22256\">8.2<\/a>&nbsp;does not require an employer to disclose any confidential information if its disclosure would be contrary to the employer\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8.4<\/strong>&nbsp;The employer must promptly consider any matters raised by the employees or their representatives about the changes in the course of the discussion under clause&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwc.gov.au\/documents\/documents\/modern_awards\/award\/ma000009\/ma000009-10.htm#P249_21934\">8.1(b)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[8\u2014Consultation regarding major workplace change renamed and substituted by&nbsp;PR546288, 8\u2014Consultation renamed and substituted by&nbsp;PR610167&nbsp;ppc 01Nov18] 8.1&nbsp;If an employer makes a definite decision to make major changes in production, program, organisation, structure or technology that are likely to have significant effects on employees, the employer must: (a)&nbsp;give notice of the changes to all employees who may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workn.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}