BlueScope Steel Limited T/A Fielders

[2019] FWCA 7593

[2019] FWCA 7593

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

BlueScope Steel Limited T/A Fielders
(AG2019/3671)

FIELDERS WANGARA (WA) OPERATIONS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT - 2019 - 2022

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS	PERTH, 5 NOVEMBER 2019

Application for approval of the Fielders Wangara (WA) Operations Enterprise Agreement - 2019 - 2022.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Fielders Wangara (WA) Operations Enterprise Agreement - 2019 - 2022 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by BlueScope Steel Limited T/A Fielders. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] The Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 12 November 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 4 November 2022.

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Annexure A