GrainCorp Operations Limited

[2013] FWCA 1284

[2013] FWCA 1284

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

GrainCorp Operations Limited
(AG2013/179)

GRAINCORP OPERATIONS LIMITED (PORTLAND TERMINAL) MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2012

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 27 FEBRUARY 2013

Graincorp Operations Limited (Portland Terminal) Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2012.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Graincorp Operations Limited (Portland Terminal) Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2012 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by GrainCorp Operations Limited. 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 provisions for carer’s leave in the Agreement and this undertaking has become a term of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(2) 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), 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 6 March 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 September 2013.

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