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

[2014] FWCA 3723

[2014] FWCA 3723

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)-Victorian Branch
(AG2014/6259)

AMWU AND PROTECH PERSONNEL (VIC) PTY LTD METALS LABOUR HIRE GREENFIELDS AGREEMENT 2013-2016

Building, metal and civil construction industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOOLEY	MELBOURNE, 5 JUNE 2014

Application for approval of the AMWU and PROTECH PERSONNEL (VIC) PTY LTD Metals Labour Hire Greenfields Agreement 2013-2016.

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

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] I am satisfied that the AMWU, the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 5 June 2014 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 12 June 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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