MAS Australasia Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 7999

[2014] FWCA 7999

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

MAS Australasia Pty Ltd
(AG2014/9571)

MAS AUSTRALASIA PTY LTD (WOODSIDE) ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE AGREEMENT 2014

Building, metal and civil construction industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT GOSTENCNIK	MELBOURNE, 20 NOVEMBER 2014

Application for approval of the MAS Australasia Pty Ltd (Woodside) Onshore and Offshore Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the MAS Australasia Pty Ltd (Woodside) Onshore and Offshore Agreement 2014 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by MAS Australasia Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] I am satisfied that The Australian Workers’ Union and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the employee organisations to be covered by the agreement, are 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.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 10 November 2014 and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 17 November 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 17 November 2018.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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