Essilor Australia Pty Ltd

[2015] FWCA 1821

[2015] FWCA 1821

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Essilor Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2015/1969)

ESSILOR AUSTRALIA (VICTORIA LABORATORY) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2014-2017

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 17 MARCH 2015

Application for approval of the Essilor Australia (Victoria Laboratory) Enterprise Agreement 2014-2017.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Essilor Australia (Victoria Laboratory) Enterprise Agreement 2014-2017 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Essilor Australia Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] Undertakings have been given in relation to several clauses of the Agreement and those undertakings have become terms of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(1) of the Act and are appended at Appendix A.

[3] Pursuant to s.190(4) of the Act, I have sought the views of the employee bargaining representatives with respect to these undertakings.

[4] Subject to those undertakings, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[5] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 24 March 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 September 2017.

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