Klenner Murphy Electrical Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 6166

[2014] FWCA 6166

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Klenner Murphy Electrical Pty Ltd
(AG2014/7279)

KLENNER MURPHY ELECTRICAL PTY LTD MORETON BAY RAIL PROJECT WORKS AGREEMENT 2014

Electrical contracting industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT LAWRENCE	SYDNEY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2014

Application for approval of the Klenner Murphy Electrical Pty Ltd Moreton Bay Rail Project Works Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Klenner Murphy Electrical Pty Ltd Moreton Bay Rail Project Works Agreement 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 f the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Klenner Murphy Electrical Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In particular, I am satisfied that the employee organisation, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[3] 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.

[4] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s.54(1), it will operate from 12 September 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 27 August 2017.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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