Baxter Laboratories Pty Ltd T/A Baxter Laboratories

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[2025] FWCA 53

7 JANUARY 2025


[2025] FWCA 53

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Baxter Laboratories Pty Ltd T/A Baxter Laboratories

(AG2024/4776)

BAXTER LABORATORIES PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024

Scientific services

COMMISSIONER SCHNEIDER

PERTH, 7 JANUARY 2025

Application for approval of the Baxter Laboratories Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2024

  1. Baxter Laboratories Pty Ltd (the Applicant) has made an application for the approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Baxter Laboratories Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2024 (the Agreement). The application was made under section 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

  1. The Applicant has provided a written undertaking. A copy of the undertaking is attached to the Agreement. In accordance with section 191(2) of the Act, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

  1. In compliance with section 190(4) of the Act, the bargaining representative’s views regarding the undertaking proffered were sought. They were provided with the opportunity to raise and address any objections they had to the undertakings proffered. No objection was raised. 

  1. Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying declarations, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of sections 186, 187, 188, and 190 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. 

  1. Pursuant to section 205A(2) of the Act, the workplace delegates’ rights term prescribed by the Pharmaceutical Industry Award 2020 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.  

  1. The United Workers’ Union (the Union), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under section 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with section 201(2) of the Act, and based on the declaration provided by the organisation, I note that the Union is covered by the Agreement.

  1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with section 54 of the Act, will operate from 14 January 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2027.

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