Geelong Port Pty Ltd

[2015] FWCA 8781

[2015] FWCA 8781

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Geelong Port Pty Ltd
(AG2015/7501)

PATRICK GEELONG PORT ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2014

Port authorities
DEPUTY PRESIDENT HAMILTON	MELBOURNE, 21 DECEMBER 2015

Application for approval of the Patrick Geelong Port Enterprise Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Patrick Geelong Port Enterprise Agreement 2014. (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Geelong Port Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] Pursuant to s.205(2) of the Act, the model consultation term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and The Australian Maritime Officers’ Union (AMOU) 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) I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 21 December 2015 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 28 December 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 7 October 2017.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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