Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance

[2014] FWCA 9016

[2014] FWCA 9016

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
(AG2014/10160)

JOURNALISTS’ COUNTRY NON-DAILY NEWSPAPERS (LATROBE VALLEY EXPRESS) AGREEMENT 2014

Publishing industry
COMMISSIONER CRIBB	MELBOURNE, 12 DECEMBER 2014

Application for approval of the Journalists’ Country Non-Daily Newspapers (Latrobe Valley Express) Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Journalists’ Country Non-Daily Newspapers (Latrobe Valley Express) Agreement 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

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

[3] The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) 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) of the Act I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[4] The Agreement was approved in Chambers on 12 December 2014 and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 19 December 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2017.

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