DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Coates Hire Operations Pty Ltd T/A Coates Hire
(AG2017/1909)

COATES HIRE OPERATIONS PTY LIMITED NATIONAL AGREEMENT 2017

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER MCKINNON	MELBOURNE, 28 JUNE 2017

Application for approval of the Coates Hire Operations Pty Limited National Agreement 2017.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Coates Hire Operations Pty Limited National 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 Coates Hire Operations Pty Ltd T/A Coates Hire. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Applicant 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.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 5 July 2017. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2020.

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Annexure A