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A recently released exposure draft suggests that the award modernisation process will lead to an expansion in award regulation for employers of information technology professionals.
As part of the award modernisation process, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission recently released an exposure draft for modern award entitled ‘Professional Employees Award 2010’. It is intended that this draft will form the basis of a modern award to regulate employment in several scientific services industries from 1 January next year, including the information technology industry. For the purpose of the exposure draft, information technology industry is defined to mean:
-the design and manufacture of computers and computer peripherals
-the design and manufacture of telecommunications equipment
-the design and manufacture of computer software
-computer system installation, repair and maintenance
-computer consultancy services
-computer programming
-system analysis services
-the design, development and maintenance of online internet architecture and the facilitation of - online content management.
Although there has been award penetration within the IT industry for some years, it has been largely confined to specific employers respondent to the federal award known as the Information Technology Industry (Professional Engineers) Award. If the Commission makes a modern award in the form of the exposure draft, many more employers will find themselves covered by award regulation with respect to IT professionals.
If you wish to discuss the draft, please do not hesitate to contact us.
NOTE: This is for information purposes only.
It does not purport to be comprehensive or to render legal advice.
