Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty Ltd

[2017] FWCA 6384

[2017] FWCA 6384

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty Ltd
(AG2017/4555)

BUREAU VERITAS MINERALS PTY LTD WHYALLA LABORATORIES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2017

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT MASSON	MELBOURNE, 1 DECEMBER 2017

Application for approval of the Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty Ltd Whyalla Laboratories Enterprise Agreement 2017.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty Ltd Whyalla Laboratories Enterprise Agreement 2017 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Bureau Veritas Minerals Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] The application was not lodged within 14 days after the agreement was made. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b), in all the circumstances I consider it fair to extend the time for making the application to the date it was actually made.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers’ Union being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 8 December 2017. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2019.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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