Bunnings Group Limited T/A Bunnings Warehouse

[2020] FWCA 6767

[2020] FWCA 6767

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Bunnings Group Limited T/A Bunnings Warehouse
(AG2020/3268)

BUNNINGS SYDNEY DISTRIBUTION CENTRE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Retail industry
COMMISSIONER HARPER-GREENWELL	MELBOURNE, 16 DECEMBER 2020

Application for approval of the Bunnings Sydney Distribution Centre Enterprise Agreement 2019.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Bunnings Sydney Distribution Centre Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Bunnings Group Limited T/A Bunnings Warehouse. 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. Pursuant to s.201(3), the undertakings are taken to be a term of 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.

[4] The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association 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 was approved on 16 December 2020 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 8 February 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2023.

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Annexure A