Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia

[2020] FWCA 3871

[2020] FWCA 3871

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia
(AG2020/1905)

VALUE ADDED LABOUR SERVICES PTY LTD - CAIRNS CONVENTION CENTRE PROJECT GREENFIELDS AGREEMENT 2020

Plumbing industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 24 JULY 2020

Application for approval of the Value Added Labour Services Pty Ltd - Cairns Convention Centre Project Greenfields Agreement 2020.

[1] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia has made an application for approval of a greenfields agreement known as the Value Added Labour Services Pty Ltd - Cairns Convention Centre Project Greenfields Agreement 2020 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act).

[2] This is a greenfields agreement that meets the requirements of s 172(2)(b) of the Act. I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186 and 187 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval has been met. In accordance with s 187(5)(a) of the Act, I am satisfied that the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) are entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[3] The Applicant has provided written undertakings and a copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. In accordance with s 191(1) of the Act, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] I note that pursuant to s 53(2)(b) of the Act, the Agreement was made with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s 54 of the Act, will operate from 31 July 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 2 July 2023.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A