Robbo1872 said:
AWA's are de-centralised wage determination agreements and are not enterprise agreements
Enterprise agreements are between groups of employees sometimes represented by a union and the employer on an enterprise level. This therefore makes enterprise agreements a collective agreement.
There are two methods of wage determination:
Awards
and Enterprise Bargaining
Awards are just that, a centralised wage determination system.
Enterprise Bargaining encompasses decentralised wage agreements, including both CAs and AWAs.
Certified Agreements are ones that involve collective bargaining and do not neccessarily involve unions. It can be a group of employees going and asking for specific work conditions and the level of wage.
AWAs however are individual agreements between individual employees and employers, specifying the wage and working conditions.