Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc

[2022] FWCA 163

[2022] FWCA 163

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc

(AG2021/8763)

Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc. General Staff Enterprise Agreement 2021

Aged care industry
COMMISSIONER LEE	MELBOURNE, 20 JANUARY 2022

Application for approval of the Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc. General Staff Enterprise Agreement 2021

1. An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc. General Staff Enterprise Agreement 2021 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

1. 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.

1. Subject to the undertakings referred to above, 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.

1. The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Health Services Union being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 27 January 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 July 2023.

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Annexure A