Iplex Pipelines Australia Pty Limited

[2020] FWCA 3338

[2020] FWCA 3338

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Iplex Pipelines Australia Pty Limited
(AG2020/1447)

IPLEX PIPELINES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019 – CHIPPING NORTON DISTRIBUTION

Storage services
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE	SYDNEY, 29 JUNE 2020

Application for approval of the Iplex Pipelines Australia Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019 - Chipping Norton Distribution.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Iplex Pipelines Australia Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019 - Chipping Norton Distribution (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Iplex Pipelines Australia Pty Limited (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 23 June 2020. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Storage Services and Wholesale Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.

[4] I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[5] The United Workers’ Union, being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers this organisation.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 6 July 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 29 November 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A