Independent Education Union of Australia

Case

[2024] FWCA 2098

6 JUNE 2024


[2024] FWCA 2098

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Independent Education Union of Australia

(AG2024/1635)

COOKTOWN KINDERGARTEN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024

Educational services

DEPUTY PRESIDENT GRAYSON

SYDNEY, 6 JUNE 2024

Application for approval of the Cooktown Kindergarten Early Childhood Education Collective Enterprise Agreement 2024

  1. The Independent Education Union (IEU) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Cooktown Kindergarten Early Childhood Education Collective Enterprise Agreement 2024 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

Section 190 Undertakings

  1. Cooktown Kindergarten Association Inc. (the Employer) 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.

Section 186, 187, 188 and 190

  1. 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.

Section 183 Bargaining Representatives

  1. The IEU, being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it.

  1. In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the IEU.

Approval

  1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 13 June 2024. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 December 2026.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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ANNEXURE A

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