Downer EDI Mining Pty Ltd

[2015] FWCA 2482

[2015] FWCA 2482

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a greenfields agreement

Downer EDI Mining Pty Ltd
(AG2015/693)

DOWNER EDI MINING BLASTING SERVICES QUEENSLAND COAL GREENFIELDS AGREEMENT 2015

Coal industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT ASBURY	BRISBANE, 10 APRIL 2015

Application for approval of the Downer EDI Mining Blasting Services Queensland Coal Greenfields Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Downer EDI Mining Blasting Services Queensland Coal Greenfields Agreement 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185(1A) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement has been made by Downer EDI Mining Pty Ltd, an employer covered by the Agreement, and is a greenfields agreement made pursuant to s.172(4).

[2] The Agreement is made with the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union pursuant to s.172(2)(b) of the Act.

[3] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In particular I am satisfied that the employee organisation is 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.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 17 April 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 17 April 2018.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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