Atlas Services Group Australia Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 2344

[2014] FWCA 2344

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Atlas Services Group Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2014/5149)

ATLAS SERVICES GROUP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD AND MUA CONTRACT PROPELLED (DI) DREDGING ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Dredging industry
COMMISSIONER CRIBB	MELBOURNE, 8 APRIL 2014

Application for approval of the Atlas Services Group Australia Pty Ltd and MUA Contract Propelled (DI) Dredging Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Atlas Services Group Australia Pty Ltd and MUA Contract Propelled (DI) Dredging Enterprise Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185(1A) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Atlas Services Group Australia Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single-enterprise greenfields agreement

[2] An undertaking has been given with respect to clause 43 and is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A copy of the undertaking is attached to this Decision as Annexure A and can also be found at the end of the Agreement.

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

[4] In accordance with s.187(5) of the Act I am satisfied that The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), the employee organisation to be covered by the Agreement, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees to be covered by the Agreement and that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[5] The Agreement was approved in Chambers on 8 April 2014 and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 15 April 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 8 February 2016.

ANNEXURE A

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