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The importance of engaging and communicating with employees about enterprise agreements cannot be understated, a lawyer stresses, noting HR professionals have a "critical" role to play in the new bargaining landscape.
There is more activity in this space; more industrial disputes, more industrial action, and more bargaining in general, Herbert Smith Freehills partner Natalie Gaspar tells an HR Daily Premium webcast.
"Unions have a bit of 'bolshyness'; they are empowered by all these legislative reforms... they're recognising the pendulum has well and truly shifted back in favour of unions and employees," she says...
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