Australian Red Cross Blood Service

[2013] FWCA 6038

[2013] FWCA 6038

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Australian Red Cross Blood Service
(AG2013/2339)

AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE NURSING ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT SOUTH AUSTRALIA 2013

Health and welfare services
COMMISSIONER HAMPTON	ADELAIDE, 22 AUGUST 2013

Application for approval of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Nursing Enterprise Agreement South Australia 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Nursing Enterprise Agreement South Australia 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Australian Red Cross Blood Service. The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, 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) of the Act I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[3] The parties provided with the application, an undertaking related to the Qualification Allowance clarifying the parties’ intentions which are appended to the agreement as approved.

[4] I have sought the views of the bargaining representatives and accepted the undertakings pursuant to s.190 of the Act. As a result, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[5] 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.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 29 August 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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