Modfix - a division of ITW Australia Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 6053

[2014] FWCA 6053

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.210 - Application for approval of a variation of an enterprise agreement

Modfix - a division of ITW Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2014/6888)

MODFIX AND NATIONAL UNION OF WORKERS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2011

Manufacturing and associated industries
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT WATSON	MELBOURNE, 9 SEPTEMBER 2014

Application for variation of the Modfix and National Union of Workers Enterprise Agreement 2011 – agreement varied.

On 21 July 2014, Modfix – a division of ITW Australia Pty Ltd (Modfix), applied under s.210 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) for approval of a variation of the Modfix and National Union of Workers Enterprise Agreement 2011 1 (the Agreement).

[1] The parties bound by the Agreement, as approved on 29 November 2011 2 are Modfix, the National Union of Workers and all employees of Modfix who perform work in or connection with the rubber, plastic and cable making industry, employed at the Braeside site of Modfix.

[2] The variation made by the parties, as per Attachment A to this decision, deals with a relocation to the Chirnside Park site, extending the coverage of the Agreement to that site (clause 5). The new clause 23A—Relocation to Ramset Drive – Increase to hourly wage rate, provides an increase to the hourly wage rate payable to employees permanently relocating to the new site, based on increased travel times, in order to assist employees in relocating their place of employment. I am satisfied that had an application been made under s.185 of the Act for the approval of the agreement as proposed to be varied, I would have been required to approve the agreement under s.186 of the Act. The variation does not alter the nominal expiry date of the Agreement. There are no serious public interest grounds for not approving the variation.

[3] Having regard to the approval requirements in s.211(1) of the Act and the modification of approval requirements in s.211(2), I am satisfied that I must approve the variation.

[4] The variation will operate from 9 September 2014.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

ATTACHMENT A

 1   AE889661.

 2   [2011] FWAA 8176.

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