JBS Australia Pty Limited

[2019] FWCA 8573

[2019] FWCA 8573

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

JBS Australia Pty Limited
(AG2019/4495)

JBS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED - TOWNSVILLE MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 20 DECEMBER 2019

Application for approval of the JBS Australia Pty Limited - Townsville Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2019

[1] JBS Australia Pty Limited has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the JBS Australia Pty Limited - Townsville Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] On the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] 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, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have each given notice under s 183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declaration provided by these organisations, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 20 December 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 27 December 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 20 December 2023.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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