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H&M has failed to clear an enterprise agreement in the Fair Work Commission (FWC).

Deputy President Bull dismissed the application to approve H&M Enterprise Agreement 2016 on the basis that it did not satisfactorily meet the ‘Better Off Overall Test’ (BOOT) test.

SDA national secretary Gerard Dwyer claimed H&M employees stood to receive substandard pay rates and lose important working conditions.

"The agreement proposed by H&M stood to short change workers and strip important working conditions away. It did not contain adequate breaks between shifts, had an insufficient casual loading and no overtime clause.

"Additionally, it included proposed rostering provisions which could require employees to work every Sunday, a measure that would have made managing family and personal life particularly difficult for H&M workers."

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