Med & Eng Pty Ltd

[2013] FWCA 8746

[2013] FWCA 8746

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Med & Eng Pty Ltd
(AG2013/11008)

MED + ENG PTY LTD DOWNSTREAM LNG PROJECT GREENFIELDS AGREEMENT

Plumbing industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT LAWRENCE	SYDNEY, 7 NOVEMBER 2013

Application for approval of the Med + Eng Pty Ltd Downstream LNG Project Greenfields Agreement.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Med + Eng Pty Ltd Downstream LNG Project Greenfields Agreement (the Agreement). The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement. It has been made by Med + Eng Pty Ltd and three employee organisations, namely the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the Australian Workers’ Union and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia.

[2] The application is made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In particular, I am satisfied that the employee organisations, taken as a group, 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.

[3] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s.54(1) it will operate from 14 November 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 14 November 2014

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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