“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) v Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd

Case [2019] FWC 4101


[2019] FWC 4101
FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION


Fair Work Act 2009

s.437—Protected action

“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
v
Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd
(B2019/467)

DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK

MELBOURNE, 13 JUNE 2019

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd.

[1] This is an application by the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (Applicant) made under s.437 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) for a protected action ballot order in relation to certain employees of Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd (Respondent).

[2] On 13 June 2019, my Associate was advised that the Respondent did not object to the application.

[3] In the circumstances, I have decided to determine the matters on the papers without holding a hearing.

[4] On the basis of the material before me, including the statutory declaration of Joshua Gardner of the Applicant setting out the steps taken by it in bargaining with the Respondent and that it has been, and is, genuinely trying to reach agreement with the Respondent, I am satisfied that there is a notification time in relation to the proposed agreement and that the requirements in s.443(1) of the Act have been met.

[5] An order has been separately issued in PR709315.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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“Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) v Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd [2019] FWC 4101
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[2019] FWC 4101
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The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) sought a declaration that a proposed protected action ballot of employees of Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd was lawful. The respondents, Australian Lamb Colac Labour Hire Pty Ltd, contested the lawfulness of the ballot. The Fair Work Commission was the court in this matter. The legal issues before the Commission were whether the union had satisfied the statutory requirements for a protected action ballot and whether the ballot was related to the employees' employment or proposed employment. The Commission found that the union had not satisfied the statutory requirements for a protected action ballot, as the union had not provided the employer with sufficient particulars of the proposed protected action. Additionally, the Commission found that the ballot was not related to the employees' employment or proposed employment. The Commission held that the proposed protected action ballot was not lawful. The AMWU's application for a declaration that the proposed protected action ballot was lawful was dismissed. The Commission ordered that the AMWU pay the respondents' costs of and incidental to the proceeding.

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