Estia Health EBA — pay rates & enterprise agreement

What an EBA means for Estia Health pay

An enterprise agreement (EA, often called an EBA) is a workplace-specific agreement between an employer and its employees — usually negotiated with a union — that sets pay rates and conditions. It must be approved by the Fair Work Commission, and the Commission can only approve it if every covered employee is better off overall than they would be under the relevant Modern Award (the "Better Off Overall Test", or BOOT). Once approved, the agreement replaces the award for the people it covers — but the award never disappears: it's the floor the agreement is tested against, and it's what applies to any Estia Health role the agreement doesn't cover.

An agreement past its nominal expiry date hasn't lapsed — under the Fair Work Act it keeps operating until it's formally terminated or replaced by a new one, which is why some of the agreements above can be several years past their listed expiry date and still be the live agreement.