JBS Australia Pty Limited

[2013] FWCA 651

[2013] FWCA 651

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

JBS Australia Pty Limited
(AG2013/80)

JBS AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED - BEEF CITY MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER SIMPSON	BRISBANE, 30 JANUARY 2013

Application for approval of the JBS Australia Pty Limited - Beef City Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the JBS Australia Pty Limited - Beef City Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2013. (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by JBS Australia Pty Limited. 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 “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (the AMWU) and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (the CEPU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU and the CEPU.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 6 February 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 29 January 2016.

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