George Weston Foods Limited t/a Don

[2015] FWCA 7824

[2015] FWCA 7824

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

George Weston Foods Limited t/a Don
(AG2015/5993)

GEORGE WESTON FOODS LIMITED (CASTLEMAINE) ENGINEERING UNION COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT 2015

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER LEE	MELBOURNE, 16 NOVEMBER 2015

Application for approval of the George Weston Foods Limited (Castlemaine) Engineering Union Collective Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the George Weston Foods Limited (Castlemaine) Engineering Union Collective Agreement 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by George Weston Foods Limited t/a Don. 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] The application was not lodged within 14 days after the agreement was made. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b), in all the circumstances I consider it fair to extend the time for making the application to the date it was actually made.

[4] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) 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 is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 23 November 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2018.

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