FORREST CENTRE AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES NURSES AND MIDWIVES’ ASSOCIATION/ANMF NSW BRANCH NURSES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2016

[2016] FWCA 2120

[2016] FWCA 2120

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

The Mary Potter Nursing Home and The Ethel Forrest Day Care Centre

Pty Ltd T/A The Forrest Centre

(AG2016/2563)

FORREST CENTRE AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES NURSES AND

MIDWIVES’ ASSOCIATION/ANMF NSW BRANCH NURSES

ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2016

Health and welfare services

COMMISSIONER JOHNS SYDNEY, 5 APRIL 2016

Application for approval of the Forrest Centre and the New South Wales Nurses and

Midwives’ Association/ANMF NSW Branch Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016.

[1]        On 18 March 2016 The Mary Potter Nursing Home and The Ethel Forrest Day Care

Centre Pty Ltd T/A The Forrest Centre (Applicant) made an application for approval of the

Forrest Centre and the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association/ANMF NSW

Branch Nurses 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 Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, 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), the Commission notes that the Agreement covers this

organisation.
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[5]        The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s 54 of the Act the Agreement will

operate from 12 March 2016. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2019.

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