Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong Inc

[2013] FWCA 7388

[2013] FWCA 7388

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong Inc
(AG2013/2499)

MULTICULTURAL AGED CARE SERVICES GEELONG INC, COMMUNITY AND HOME CARE EMPLOYEES, ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Social, community, home care and disability services
COMMISSIONER JOHNS	MELBOURNE, 25 SEPTEMBER 2013

Application for approval of The Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong Inc, Community & Home Care Employees, Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] On 23 August 2013 an application was made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as The Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong Inc, Community & Home Care Employees, Enterprise Agreement 2013 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) by Multicultural Aged Care Services Geelong Inc (Applicant). The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[1] The Agreement was lodged within 14 days after it was made.

[2] The Applicant has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. The Commission is 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. In any case the Commission received correspondence from the Health Services Union (HSU) indicating it has no objection to the undertakings.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, the Commission is satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.

[4] The HSU, 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), I note that the Agreement covers this organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 2 October 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 March 2017.

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ANNEXURE A