r AWAs (individual agreements).
             Enterprise agreements, however, can vary enormously in terms of what they deliver. For the majority of employees covered by an enterprise agreement, the agreement still has to be read in conjunction with awards, as they (awards) cover the 20 allowable matters set down by the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WRA), (Catanzariti & Baragwanath, 1997). Certified enterprise agreements are processed via the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) whilst AWAs are processed by the then newly created Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA), (Law Vision, 1997).
             Introduction of the Howard government's WRA was to further encourage bargaining between the parties and continued the movement from a pluralist approach to a unitary approach for the employment relationship (Keenoy & Kelly, 2002). It also signaled a further reduction in the role of the AIRC. By May 2004, the OEA had approved in excess of 485,000 agreements made within the private (84%
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