“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)

[2014] FWCA 2589

[2014] FWCA 2589

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
(AG2014/4112)

BESTAFF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD METALS LABOUR HIRE AGREEMENT 2013-2016

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 16 APRIL 2014

Application for approval of the BESTAFF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Metals Labour Hire Agreement 2013-2016.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the BESTAFF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD Metals Labour Hire Agreement 2013-2016 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] An undertaking has been given in relation to the consultation clause of the Agreement and this undertaking has become a term of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(1) of the Act and is appended at Appendix A.

[3] Subject to those undertakings, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[4] The AMWU, being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 23 April 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

COMMISSIONER

Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer

<Price code C, AE407772  PR549793>

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