Fredon Security (QLD) CD Pty Ltd

[2021] FWCA 3642

[2021] FWCA 3642

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Fredon Security (QLD) CD Pty Ltd
(AG2021/5573)

FREDON SECURITY (QLD) CD PTY LIMITED SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND CORRECTIONAL PRECINCT STAGE 2 PROJECT GREENFIELDS AGREEMENT 2020

Electrical contracting industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 24 JUNE 2021

Application for approval of the Fredon Security (Qld) CD Pty Limited Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct Stage 2 Project Greenfields Agreement 2020.

[1] Fredon Security (QLD) CD Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Fredon Security (Qld) CD Pty Limited Southern Queensland Correctional Precinct Stage 2 Project Greenfields Agreement 2020 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act).

[2] This is a greenfields agreement that meets the requirements of s 172(2)(b) of the Act. I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186 and 187 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval has been met. In accordance with s 187(5) of the Act, I am satisfied that the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) are entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it, and that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement. I note that pursuant to s 53(2)(b) of the Act, the Agreement was made with the CEPU, the CFMMEU and the AMWU and that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[3] The Agreement was approved on 24 June 2021 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 1 July 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 January 2024.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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