Australian Postal Corporation ('Australia Post')

[2013] FWCA 4941

[2013] FWCA 4941

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Australian Postal Corporation ('Australia Post')
(AG2013/7473)

AUSTRALIA POST ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Postal services
COMMISSIONER GREGORY	MELBOURNE, 22 JULY 2013

Application for approval of the Australia Post Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Australia Post Enterprise Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Australian Postal Corporation (‘Australia Post’). The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] 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.

[3] The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA), Transport Workers Union (TWU), Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) and Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union (AMWU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 29 July 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 December 2016.

COMMISSIONER

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