Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 3954

[2014] FWCA 3954

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd
(AG2014/1290)

AMWU AND GORDON BROTHERS INDUSTRIES PTY LTD BENDIGO AND BRUNSWICK WORKSHOPS METALS TRADES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 12 JUNE 2014

Application for approval of the AMWU and Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd Bendigo and Brunswick Workshops Metals Trades Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the AMWU and Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd Bendigo and Brunswick Workshops Metals Trades Enterprise Agreement 2013the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Gordon Brothers Industries Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] An undertaking has been given in relation to clause 1.7(a) of 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.

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

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 19 June 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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