GWA Group Ltd

[2013] FWCA 6479

[2013] FWCA 6479

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

GWA Group Ltd
(AG2013/8752)

GWA GROUP (GAINSBOROUGH HARDWARE INDUSTIRES LTD). ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 3 SEPTEMBER 2013

GWA Group (Gainsborough Hardware Industires Ltd). Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the GWA Group (Gainsborough Hardware Industires Ltd). Enterprise Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by GWA Group 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] 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.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 10 September 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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