GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd

[2013] FWCA 8152

[2013] FWCA 8152

The attached document replaces the document previously issued with the above code on 17 October 2013 and is amended as follows:

The title clause in the agreement is incorrect and so the year referred to in the title of the agreement has been changed from ‘2010’ to ‘2013’ wherever it appears in the decision.

Fran Cashman

Associate to Commissioner Ryan

Dated 17 October 2013

[2013] FWCA 8152

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2013/9722)

AMWU, ETU & GLAXOSMITHKLINE MAINTENANCE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 17 OCTOBER 2013

Application for approval of the AMWU, ETU & GlaxoSmithKline Maintenance Collective Bargaining Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the AMWU, ETU & GlaxoSmithKline Maintenance Collective Bargaining Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] An undertaking has been given in relation to the provision for carer’s leave in the Agreement and this undertaking has become a term of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(1) of the Act and is appended at Appendix A.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU and CEPU.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 24 October 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

COMMISSIONER

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