When may the administrative authority extend a collective agreement to other workers and their employers in the same region, and who may trigger that?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise, the practice file would hold the collective agreement itself and papers showing how many workers of the same kind employed in the region are covered by it, any application by a party or both parties to that agreement, and the record of the Labour Relations Commission's resolution.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the conditions in order: where two thirds or more of the workers of the same kind employed in one region have been brought under a single collective agreement, the administrative authority may decide to apply that agreement to other workers of the same kind in that region and to their employers, either on an application by both or one party to the agreement, or on its own motion, having obtained the resolution of the Labour Relations Commission.
Another reading stresses that the provision grants a power — the authority 'may decide' — and that every route to it passes through the Labour Relations Commission's resolution, so a decision made without that resolution, or reached before the coverage threshold among workers of the same kind in the region was met, falls outside what this provision allows.
Your judgment
How could the file show that workers of the same kind in the region were already covered by the agreement before the decision was sought?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the provision is amended to change the coverage threshold or the bodies whose resolution is required, or if a court decision explains who counts as a worker of the same kind in the region.