McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 9268

[2014] FWCA 9268

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd
(AG2014/10153)

MCCAIN FOODS (AUST) PTY. LTD. BALLARAT MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2014

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 18 DECEMBER 2014

Application for approval of the McCain Foods (Aust) Pty. Ltd. Ballarat Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the McCain Foods (Aust) Pty. Ltd. Ballarat Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] An undertaking has been given in relation to personal/carer’s leave of the Agreement and this undertaking has become a term of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(1) of the Act and is appended at Appendix A.

[3] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have both given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU and CEPU.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 25 December 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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