Hydro Australia

[2013] FWCA 2768

[2013] FWCA 2768

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Hydro Australia
(AG2013/892)

HYDRO AUSTRALIA ANGLESEA SHUTDOWN AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 3 MAY 2013

Application for approval of the Hydro Australia Anglesea Shutdown Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Hydro Australia Anglesea Shutdown Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Hydro Australia. The agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] I am satisfied that the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

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

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