Employee Representatives and OHS Representatives. All persons covered by this Agreement recognise the important role of Employee Representatives and OHS Representatives. The Employee Representatives and OHS Representatives have a key role in the early intervention in industrial disputes and health and safety issues under this Agreement.
Employee Representatives and OHS Representatives. 16.1 Time during working hours
Employee Representatives and OHS Representatives. The parties to this Agreement recognise the important role the employee representative(s) and Health & Safety Representative(s) play in representing the employees at their workplace. The employee representative(s) and Health and Safety Representative(s) have a key role in the early intervention in industrial disputes and Health & Safety issues. Employee representative(s) and Health & Safety Representative(s) shall with the managements prior approval, be allowed reasonable time during working hours to attend to respective industrial and occupational health & safety matters on behalf of the company employees. When the employee representative(s) and Health and Safety representatives are not representing their fellow company employees on legitimate business they shall be engaged as employees and performing normal work. The parties recognise that employees have the right and expectation of representation from accredited employee representative(s) Employee representative(s) and Health & Safety Representative(s) to be voted into their positions from a secret (valid majority) ballot of their fellow employees. Representatives must make prior arrangements with management in order to attend to their workplace representative duties during a working day.
