Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd

[2022] FWCA 2194

[2022] FWCA 2194

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd

(AG2022/1903)

Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd Pluto Train 2 Project Agreement

Building, metal and civil construction industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BEAUMONT	PERTH, 30 JUNE 2022

Application for approval of the Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd Pluto Train 2 Project Agreement

1. An application has been made for approval of a greenfields agreement known as the Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd Pluto Train 2 Project Agreement (the Agreement). The application was made by Mobile Concreting Solutions Pty Ltd pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act).

1. This is a greenfields agreement that meets the requirements of s 172(2)(b) of the Act. 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. In accordance with s 187(5)(a) of the Act, I am satisfied that the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, The Australian Workers’ Union, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union 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.

1. The Applicant has provided written undertakings and a copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. In accordance with s 191(2) of the Act, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

1. Pursuant to s 53(2)(b) of the Act I note the Agreement was made with the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union, The Australian Workers’ Union, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and that the Agreement covers these organisations.

1. The Agreement was approved on 30 June 2022 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 7 July 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2026.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A