Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 7264

[2019] FWCA 7264

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Pty Ltd
(AG2019/3593)

CARTER HOLT HARVEY PLYWOOD PTY LTD MYRTLEFORD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 22 OCTOBER 2019

Application for approval of the Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Pty Ltd Myrtleford Enterprise Agreement 2019

[1] Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Carter Holt Harvey Plywood Pty Ltd Myrtleford Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). 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. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, 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 Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, has each given notice under s 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declarations provided by these organisations, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 22 October 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 29 October 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A