Award (Australian industrial relations)
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An award is a ruling handed down by either the Australian Industrial Relations Commission or by a state industrial relations commission which grants all workers in one industry the same conditions of employment and wages.
Federal awards in Australia have been stripped back in what they are allowed to contain in order to promote the Enterprise Bargaining Agreement system. Awards in Australia are part of the system of compulsory arbitration in industrial relations.
A similar system was also used in New Zealand prior to the 1987 Labour Relations Act, the nearest equivlent in industrial relations today is a 'Collective Employment Agreement'.
