When do the current enterprise bargaining agreements end?
Most enterprise bargaining agreements have an end date, or ‘nominal expiry’ date. This is so the terms of the agreements can be renegotiated at regular intervals. On 31 August 2008, agreements covering medical, dental, administrative, operational, building, engineering and maintenance staff, and those professional and technical staff who are not covered by the health practitioners’ agreement, will all nominally expire. The current agreement for Visiting Medical Officers (VMOs) expires on 28 February 2009, while the nursing agreement nominally expires on 26 March 2009. All current agreements remain in force until replacement agreements are negotiated and certified (where necessary) by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
