Laminex Group Pty Limited T/A Laminex

[2021] FWCA 7271

[2021] FWCA 7271

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Laminex Group Pty Limited T/A Laminex
(AG2021/8610)

LAMINEX BALLARAT DECORATING PLANT AGREEMENT 2021

Timber and paper products industry
COMMISSIONER LEE	MELBOURNE, 22 DECEMBER 2021

Application for approval of the Laminex Ballarat Decorating Plant Agreement 2021

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Laminex Ballarat Decorating Plant Agreement 2021 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Laminex Group Pty Limited T/A Laminex. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[4] Pursuant to s.202(4) of the Act, the model flexibility term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[5] The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union 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 it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 29 December 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 October 2024.

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Annexure A