The Workplace Agreements Database
The Workplace Agreements Database (WAD) is a unique database that provides data on developments in coverage, wage increases and conditions of employment included in collective agreements, and is the database that underpins the Australian Enterprise Agreements Data (AEAD).
This census database is the only one of its kind in Australia, with a total of 115 000 agreements currently living in the site. The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), maintains and operates the database. On average about 8000 agreements are added to the WAD each year with approximately 200 separate data fields coded.
The WAD contains general details regarding sector, ANZSIC (Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification), duration of agreements, and number of employees covered by these agreements. The database contains wages information relating to all public and private federal enterprise agreements, which have been certified or approved since the introduction of Enterprise Bargaining principles in October 1991 and wages and conditions information for all federal enterprise agreements certified or approved since 1 January 1997.
The WAD contains details about conditions of employment contained within enterprise agreements, including, but not limited to individual flexibility arrangements, redundancy, superannuation, leave entitlements and training. Please contact the WAD team at ebtrends@deewr.gov.au for more detailed information.
Publications
Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining is a quarterly report containing data about the number of enterprise agreements made in the federal workplace relations system, as well as data about the number of employees covered and the level of wage increases included in enterprise agreements.
The Report on Agreement Making is a report on developments in Australia in bargaining for the making of agreements.
This report does not cover enterprise agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act). The next report on agreement making will be produced by Fair Work Australia and will cover enterprise agreements made in the three year period from 1 July 2009.