Grange Resources (Tasmania) Pty Limited

[2020] FWCA 1892

[2020] FWCA 1892

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Grange Resources (Tasmania) Pty Limited
(AG2020/519)

GRANGE RESOURCES TASMANIA PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2020

Mining industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 14 APRIL 2020

Application for approval of the Grange Resources Tasmania Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2020

[1] Grange Resources (Tasmania) Pty Limited has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Grange Resources Tasmania Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2020 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. 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. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, 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.

[4] The Australian Workers’ Union and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have each given notice under s 183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declarations provided by these organisations, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 14 April 2020 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 21 April 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 December 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A