Kwikform Industrial Services Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 711

[2014] FWCA 711

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Kwikform Industrial Services Pty Ltd
(AG2014/3439)

KWIKFORM INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013-2016

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 30 JANUARY 2014

Application for approval of the Kwikform Industrial Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2013-2016.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Kwikform Industrial Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2013-2016 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Kwikform Industrial Services 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.

[3] The application was not lodged within 14 days after the agreement was made. The Applicant requested an extension of time. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b), in all the circumstances I consider it fair to extend the time for making the application to the date it was actually made.

[4] I am satisfied that the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, 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.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 6 February 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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