Keller Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 2633

[2019] FWCA 2633

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Keller Pty Ltd
(AG2018/5735)

KELLER PTY LTD AND AMWU COLLECTIVE BARGAINING VICTORIA WORKSHOP AGREEMENT 2018-2021

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER BISSETT	MELBOURNE, 1 MAY 2019

Application for approval of the Keller Pty Ltd and AMWU Collective Bargaining Victoria Workshop Agreement 2018 - 2021.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Keller Pty Ltd and AMWU Collective Bargaining Victoria Workshop Agreement 2018 - 2021 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Keller Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] 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] Pursuant to s.205(2) of the Act, the model consultation term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] The Agreement lodged contained an error at clause 10.1. On 17 April 2019 the Applicant filed amended pages to rectify the error in the Agreement pursuant to s.586 of the Act. I am satisfied that the corrections should be made and that it is appropriate to do so pursuant to s.586 of the Act.

[5] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 8 May 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 March 2021.

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