Australian Comfort Group Pty Ltd T/A Sleepmaker

[2016] FWCA 2735

[2016] FWCA 2735

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Australian Comfort Group Pty Ltd T/A Sleepmaker
(AG2015/6830)

SLEEPMAKER (BRISBANE) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2015

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER GREGORY	MELBOURNE, 4 MAY 2016

Application for approval of the Sleepmaker (Brisbane) Enterprise Agreement 2015.

[1] On 21 April 2016 the Commission handed down a decision indicating that the Sleepmaker (Brisbane) Enterprise Agreement 2015 (the Agreement) would be approved providing certain undertakings proposed by the Applicant, the Australian Comfort Group Pty Ltd T/A Sleepmaker, were received. It was also indicated that copies of those undertakings were to be forwarded to the bargaining representatives, with a further period of three days then being provided to enable any of those bargaining representatives to provide any views or comments in response about the proposed undertakings.

[2] The Applicant has now provided the proposed undertakings to the Commission. It has also confirmed that copies of the undertakings were provided to the bargaining representatives. The further period of three days has also now elapsed and nothing has been received from any of the bargaining representatives in that time about the content of the proposed undertakings.

[3] I am satisfied that the undertakings do not cause financial detriment to any employee to be covered by the Agreement. I am also satisfied that they do not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. I have accordingly accepted the undertakings. They are attached to this decision and will now be taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] I am also satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and s.190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[5] The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, 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.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 11 May 2016. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 May 2018.

COMMISSIONER

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