The Fair Work Committee presented on Friday afternoon, after five years of tense labour negotiations, including strikes, a draft enterprise agreement on Interior Ministry staff. The 85-ts agreement and the decision of 185 support parties set the conditions for workers within the Ministry of the Interior, including increasing working time on a normal working day, explaining how to standardize wage classifications and the amount of burden paid to casual workers. It is expected that, in the vast majority of cases, negotiations will result in an enterprise agreement being submitted for approval by the Fair Labour Commission. However, if negotiators fail to agree on a proposed enterprise agreement, the 2009 Fair Work Act provides, in specific cases (certain requirements), a full Commission bank to set the terms of employment. [1] Workplace rules are treated in the same way as enterprise agreements. Therefore, when a definition of employment is taken (one way or another), it must do this: if the rates of pay were different between public affairs agreements and legal advisers, the Commission was more inclined to rely on the lower rates of pay proposed by the department, but it also identified many cases where the union and the department had the same starting point. An employment provision applicable to a worker with respect to a specific job will no longer apply (and will never again apply to the worker with respect to that employment) when an enterprise agreement covering the worker comes into force with respect to the same employment. One of the main challenges in developing the provision was to address differences in pay rates and conditions for department staff, some of which were covered by the more generous agreement for customs and border guards and another staff agreement that had been replaced by the department of immigration and citizenship at the time. “The department has already informed staff of the draft decision; and will continue to communicate with staff and provide up-to-date information on this,” the spokeswoman said. Compensation for airport staff will be phased out at the time of fixing, reducing a 25% reduction every six months by 25% over a two-year period.