3M Australia Pty Ltd
[2023] FWCA 2859
•6 SEPTEMBER 2023
| [2023] FWCA 2859 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
3M Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2023/2977)
3M AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS UNION GUILDFORD MANUFACTURING CENTRE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2023
| Manufacturing and associated industries | |
| DEPUTY PRESIDENT DEAN | CANBERRA, 6 SEPTEMBER 2023 |
Application for approval of the 3M Australia and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Guildford Manufacturing Centre Enterprise Agreement 2023.
An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the 3M Australia and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Guildford Manufacturing Centre Enterprise Agreement 2023 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by 3M Australia Pty Ltd (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
The Employer has provided a written undertaking. A copy of the undertaking is attached in Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertaking will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertaking will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. The undertaking is taken to be a term of the agreement.
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.
The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.
The Agreement lodged as part of the application contained a typographical error at clause 4. The Employer sought to correct the error and filed an amended Agreement page. I am satisfied that the correction should be made and that it is appropriate to do so pursuant to s.218A of the Act.
The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 13 September 2023. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 July 2026.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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