Ardex Australia Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 1134

[2014] FWCA 1134

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Ardex Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2014/3561)

ARDEX AUSTRALIA SA COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT 2014

Manufacturing and associated industries
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT O'CALLAGHAN	ADELAIDE, 14 FEBRUARY 2014

Application for approval of the Ardex Australia SA Collective Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Ardex Australia SA Collective Agreement 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Ardex Australia Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] The employer has provided undertakings in the following terms:

“Ardex Australia, in accordance with the recent new superannuation provisions, will make superannuation contributions into a complying superannuation fund that offers MySuper product nominated by the employee, or in the absence of the employee nominating a complying fund, a fund chosen by Ardex Australia which currently is Australian Super, a ‘MySuper’ product compliant.”

[3] As a result, the above undertaking is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A full copy of advice provided by the employer is attached to the Agreement as Attachment 1.

[4] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 22 February 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 December 2015.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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