George Weston Foods Limited

[2019] FWCA 3689

[2019] FWCA 3689

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

George Weston Foods Limited
(AG2019/355)

GEORGE WESTON FOODS LIMITED (CASTLEMAINE) ENGINEERING UNION COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT 2018

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BULL	SYDNEY, 28 MAY 2019

Application for approval of the George Weston Foods Limited (Castlemaine) Engineering Union Collective Agreement 2018.

[1] An application (Form F16) has been filed by George Weston Foods Limited(the applicant) for the approval of an enterprise agreement known as the George Weston Foods Limited (Castlemaine) Engineering Union Collective Agreement 2018 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement as per s.172(2) of the Act.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings regarding definition of a shiftworker and the family and domestic violence leave. A copy of the undertakings is attached at the end of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[1] The Employer has provided that the notification time and the last notice of representational rights is 20 March 2018.

[2] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and Communications, Electrical, Electronics, Postal, Information, Plumbing & Allied Services Union being bargaining representatives 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) I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 4 June 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2021.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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