Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd T/A GEMCO

Case

[2016] FWCA 792

5 FEBRUARY 2016

No judgment structure available for this case.

[2016] FWCA 792 [Note: An appeal pursuant to s.604 (C2016/2755) was lodged against this decision - refer to Full Bench decisions dated 24 March 2016 [[2016] FWCFB 1867] , 3 May 2016 [[2016] FWCFB 2432] and 31 May 2016 [[2016] FWCFB 3492] respectively for results of appeal.]
FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION


Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd T/A GEMCO
(AG2015/7568)

GROOTE EYLANDT MINING COMPANY ENTERPRISE BARGAINING AGREEMENT 2015

Northern Territory

COMMISSIONER GREGORY

MELBOURNE, 5 FEBRUARY 2016

Application for approval of the Groote Eylandt Mining Company Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Groote Eylandt Mining Company Enterprise Bargaining 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 Groote Eylandt Mining Company Pty Ltd T/A GEMCO. 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 “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, the United Voice, the Maritime Union of Australia, the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union 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 the organisations.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 12 February 2016. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 December 2018.

COMMISSIONER

Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer

<Price code J, AE417721  PR576788>