Linfox Armaguard Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 7765

[2019] FWCA 7765

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Linfox Armaguard Pty Ltd
(AG2019/3574)

ARMAGUARD AND TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION QUEENSLAND ROAD CREW ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Road transport industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 13 NOVEMBER 2019

Application for approval of the Armaguard and Transport Workers Union Queensland Road Crew Enterprise Agreement 2019

[1] Linfox Armaguard Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Armaguard and Transport Workers Union Queensland Road Crew Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). 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, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, 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 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.

[5] The Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, 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) and based on the statutory declaration provided by the organisation, I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[6] The Agreement was approved on 13 November 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 20 November 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 December 2021.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A