J & P Richardson Industries Pty Ltd

[2015] FWCA 487

[2015] FWCA 487

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

J & P Richardson Industries Pty Ltd
(AG2014/10968)

J&P RICHARDSON INDUSTRIES UNION ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2015

Electrical contracting industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT LAWRENCE	SYDNEY, 19 JANUARY 2015

J&P Richardson Industries Union Enterprise Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the J&P Richardson Industries Union Enterprise Agreement 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). 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 Fair Work Commission notes and accepts the undertaking provided by the employer and it is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A copy of the undertaking is attached to this decision as Annexure A.

[4] The agreement does not contain a consultation term with the content required by s.205(1) and (1A). Accordingly, in accordance with s.205(2), the model consultation term contained in Schedule 2.3 of the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the agreement.

[5] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), being a bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers those organisations.

[6] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s.54(1) it will operate from 26 January 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 16 February 2017.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Annexure A

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