More court action and strikes have been avoided, with the dispute between Boral and the CFMEU over for now.

More than 100 employees of Boral’s De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) concrete subsidiary are back at work this week, after walking off construction sites last Friday.

The down-tools was the result of seven months of stalled talks over a new enterprise bargaining agreement.

Boral had accused the CFMEU of unlawful conduct, saying it had pushed employees of contractors to breach their contracts with DMG, and had “exerted pressure” for them to hold up work at the Barangaroo construction site in Sydney.

“We’ve spent the day negotiating with the CFMEU and employee representatives and we have reached an in-principle agreement, the details of which will be finalised in further discussions,” Ross Harper, DMG’s general manager, told News Corp media outlet The Australian.

A big part of the standoff was whether the work agreement should be referred to the planned Federal Building and Construction Code.

Both sides have agreed that the deal will not have to adhere to the code until the legislation is passed.

The code is part of federal government moves to bring back the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) among other industrial relations changes.

The CFMEU did not want any mention of the ABCC in the final agreement, but Boral insisted it be included.

There has been no comment on any new pay deals.

The union had asked for a 2.5 per cent increase every six months for three years, while Boral wanted something closer to a 2.2 per cent rise every six months over four years.

CFMEU state secretary Brian Parker said the company had been pushed to accept a higher rate of pay.

“We’ve come to the terms of a very good document that’s going to assist in [Boral’s] productivity, and the fact is these blokes are the hardest working in the building industry,” he told reporters.