James Hardie Australia Pty Ltd

[2013] FWCA 386

[2013] FWCA 386

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

James Hardie Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2012/13179)

JAMES HARDIE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD CONCRETE PIPES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2012

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER SIMPSON	BRISBANE, 25 JANUARY 2013

Application for approval of the James Hardie Australia Pty Ltd Concrete Pipes Enterprise Agreement 2012.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the James Hardie Australia Pty Ltd Concrete Pipes Enterprise Agreement 2012 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by James Hardie Australia Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

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

[3] The Australian Workers’ Union of Employees, Queensland and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 1 February 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 24 January 2016.

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