Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 6425

[2019] FWCA 6425

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd
(AG2019/2278)

ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS PTY LTD HEATHERTON SERVICE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER YILMAZ	MELBOURNE, 16 SEPTEMBER 2019

Application for approval of the Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd Heatherton Service Enterprise Agreement 2019.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd Heatherton Service Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Electrolux Home Products Pty Ltd. 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, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 are relevant to this application for approval and have been met. The Agreement does not cover all of the employees of the employer, however, taking into account the factors in section 186(3) and (3A) I am satisfied that the group of employees was fairly chosen.

[4] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 23 September 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 May 2022.

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Annexure