The Australian Higher Education Industrial Association is the employer association for the higher education sector, registered under the Federal Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009.

AHEIA's membership comprises universities and other higher education providers. The Association employs a team of highly mobile specialist IR consultants based in Melbourne.

AHEIA protects the workplace relations interests of its members, advises them on award and workplace relations matters and represents them, on either an individual or collective basis, before industrial tribunals and internal disciplinary and appeals committees.

With the focus of workplace relations increasingly on enterprise bargaining, AHEIA is available to assist members at a local level, is a clearing house for relevant information and a medium for communication between members.

AHEIA supports its members by making submissions to Government and Parliamentary enquiries on workplace relations matters, and by making public comment on workplace relations matters affecting its members.