"Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union" known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) v Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd

[2013] FWC 7601

[2013] FWC 7601

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.365 - Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal

"Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union" known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU)
v
Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd
(C2013/5308)

COMMISSIONER BISSETT BRISBANE, 30 SEPTEMBER 2013

Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal.

[1] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) (the Applicant) lodged an application pursuant to s.365 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) alleging that a number of employees of Hastings Deering (Australia) Ltd (the Respondent) had their employment terminated by the Respondent in breach of the general protections provisions of the Act. The Applicant’s application contained, as an appendix to the application, the names of the employees for whom it made the claim.

[2] The matter was subject to a conference before me on 30 September 2013. At that conference the Applicant indicated that it wished to add ‘Scott Falzon’ to Schedule 1 to the application. The Respondent indicated that it had no objection to the amendment to the application.

[3] I have decided to dispense with any procedural requirements of the rules as to this amendment to the application and I accept the amendment to the application. The application, as amended by the addition of ‘Scott Falzon’ to Schedule 1, is the application before the Commission.

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