ENGIE Fire Protection Pty Limited

[2020] FWCA 349

[2020] FWCA 349

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

ENGIE Fire Protection Pty Limited
(AG2019/4812)

ENGIE FIRE SERVICES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED AND ETU ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019-2021

Electrical contracting industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 31 JANUARY 2020

Application for approval of the Engie Fire Services Australia Pty Limited and ETU Enterprise Agreement 2019-2021

[1] ENGIE Fire Protection Pty Limited has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Engie Fire Services Australia Pty Limited and ETU Enterprise Agreement 2019-2021 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). 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, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, 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 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) and based on the statutory declaration provided by the organisation, I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 31 January 2020 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 7 February 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2021.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A