Screen Producers Australia regularly negotiates agreements with unions and guilds on behalf of its members. These agreements are for the exclusive use of Screen Producers Australia member businesses or otherwise licenced businesses.

The Screen Producers Australia constitution gives the Screen Producers Australia Council the authority to appoint Industrial Officers and to enter into industrial agreements with any trade or industrial union or association or organisation of employers or employees.

Screen Producers Australia may involve advisory committees made up of a mixture of member businesses using individuals with requisite experience and capacity in the negotiation of these agreements. These committees are designed to harness the collective wisdom of the industry in these negotiations and provide outcomes that serve the strategic interests of the membership.

Screen Producers Australia Constitutional Powers (15 May 2020)

31 - Industrial Questions, Matters and Disputes

a. Without affecting the generality of its powers under this Constitution or the Act or under any statute or by-law or from any other source whatsoever, the Council at its complete discretion shallhave power in the name of and on behalf of the Association and provided that the Association has not in General Meeting decided or resolved to the contrary:-

(i) to make demands concerning industrial questions or serve claims on any organisation, trade union or other body, employee, official or person whatsoever;

(ii) to carry on negotiations and effect compromises or settlements and enter into industrial agreements with any such organisation, trade union, body, employee, official or person;

(iii) to notify refer or submit any industrial matter dispute or question or question of law to any tribunal or authority whatsoever for hearing determination or decision;

(iv) wherever in its opinion any employee, official, person, organisation, trade union or other body is or is threatening or is likely to commit a breach or contravention of any award or industrial agreement to which the Association or Members are a party or of any law pursuant to which such an award or industrial agreement is made or of any law whatsoever applicable to the Industry, to take any action in any tribunal or authority whatsoever, and;

(v) To take all necessary steps to enforce any determination or decision given or any fine or penalty imposed by any tribunal or authority referred to in paragraphs (iii) and (iv) of this sub-rule.

b. The industrial matters, disputes and questions referred to in sub-rule (a) of this Rule and in Rule 33 shall comprise but shall not be limited to the matters included in the definition of those terms in the Act.

32 - Representation of the Association

a. The Council may appoint such number of Industrial Officers as it sees fit to represent the Association in industrial matters, disputes and questions.

b. The Industrial Officers may be appointed from members or officers or employees of the Association or from persons outside the Association.

c. Any of the Industrial Officers appointed by the Council and/or the Chief Executive Officer shall have authority to take out make or sign any document or take any steps on behalf of the Association and to act on its behalf generally for the purpose of carrying out any decision of the Council made pursuant to its powers, referred to in sub-rule (a) of Rule 31.