Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia
[2022] FWCA 653
•24 FEBRUARY 2022
| [2022] FWCA 653 |
| 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
(AG2022/377)
Extreme Pipe Welding Pty. Ltd. t/a Engineering & Pipe Welding (EPW) (Queens Wharf) - Union Collective Agreement 2018
| Plumbing industry | |
| DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN | MELBOURNE, 24 FEBRUARY 2022 |
Application for approval of the Extreme Pipe Welding Pty. Ltd. t/a Engineering & Pipe Welding (EPW) (Queens Wharf) - Union Collective Agreement 2018
The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Extreme Pipe Welding Pty. Ltd. t/a Engineering & Pipe Welding (EPW) (Queens Wharf) - Union Collective Agreement 2018 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act).
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) of the Act, I am satisfied that the CEPU and 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, and that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.
I note that pursuant to s 53(2)(b) of the Act, the Agreement was made with the CEPU and the AMWU and that the Agreement covers these organisations.
The Agreement was approved on 24 February 2022 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 3 March 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 November 2022.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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