Should they so choose, Westpac employees have the legal right to collective representation and to participate in union matters. Union membership is a matter of personal choice and Westpac does not discriminate on the basis of membership or non membership of a trade union.
Under the Westpac Enterprise Development Agreement and workplace relations legislation the Finance Sector Union has certain rights of entry into the workplace and access to relevant information. Similarly, the EDA provides employees who are union representatives with certain rights to devote time to union matters and leave to attend union courses and to carry out union business.
Westpac recognises employees' legal right to take industrial action in defined circumstances, in accordance with workplace relations' legislation.