Fonterra Australia Pty Ltd T/A Fonterra Australia

[2017] FWCA 3944

[2017] FWCA 3944

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Fonterra Australia Pty Ltd T/A Fonterra Australia
(AG2017/2880)

FONTERRA (MAINTENANCE SERVICES: COBDEN, STANHOPE AND DARNUM) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2016

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER JOHNS	SYDNEY, 26 JULY 2017

Application for approval of the Fonterra (Maintenance Services: Cobden, Stanhope and Darnum) Enterprise Agreement 2016.

[1] On 14 July 2017 Fonterra Australia Pty Ltd T/A Fonterra Australia (Applicant) made an application for approval of the Fonterra (Maintenance Services: Cobden, Stanhope and Darnum) Enterprise Agreement 2016 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (Act). The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] The Agreement was lodged within 14 days after it was made.

[3] The Commission is satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186, 187 and 188 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, has been met.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s 183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s 201(2), the Commission notes that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s 54 of the Act the Agreement will operate from 2 August 2017. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 September 2019.

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