2.2 million Australians benefiting from the Fair Work Act | Ministers' Media Centre

Figures released today show that 2.2 million working Australians have benefitted from enterprise agreements made under the Fair Work Act. Minister for Workplace Relations Bill Shorten said the Trends in Enterprise Bargaining Report for the December 2011 quarter shows that since the Fair Work Act began, more than 16 200 enterprise agreements have been made, covering 2.2million employees including 260 000 employees covered by Fair Work Act enterprise agreements approved in the last quarter.. As at 31 December last year there were 22 457 agreements in operation covering almost 2.5 million employees, including the 2.2 million under the Fair Work Act, Mr Shorten said.

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