Hufcor Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 4327

[2019] FWCA 4237

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Hufcor Pty Ltd
(AG2019/1792)

HUFCOR PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER CIRKOVIC	MELBOURNE, 20 JUNE 2019

Application for approval of the Hufcor Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Hufor Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Hufcor Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The employer did not provide the notice of the time and place by the start of the access period as defined in s.180(4), but was provided 7 days before voting commenced. Pursuant to s.188(2), I am satisfied that the agreement would have been genuinely agreed to but for the minor procedural error made in relation to the requirement in s180(3). I am satisfied that the employees covered by the agreement were not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error. As a result, I am satisfied that the Agreement has been genuinely agreed within the meaning of s.188(2) of the Act.

[3] 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.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, 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. The Agreement does not cover all of the employees of the employer, however, taking into account the factors in Section 186(3) and (3A) I am satisfied that the group of employees was fairly chosen.

[5] The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), each being a bargaining representative 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) I note that the Agreement covers each organisation.

[6] The Agreement was approved on 20 June 2019 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 27 June 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2022.

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Annexure A