Norco Co-operative Limited

[2019] FWCA 4831

[2019] FWCA 4831

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Norco Co-operative Limited
(AG2019/2039)

NORCO CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED LABRADOR FOODS (QLD OPERATIONS) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT ‘2018-2021’

Food, beverages and tobacco manufacturing industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT YOUNG	MELBOURNE, 10 JULY 2019

Application for approval of the Norco Co-operative Limited Labrador Foods (Qld Operations) Enterprise Agreement ‘2018-2021’.

[1] Norco Co-operative Limited (the Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Norco Co-operative Limited Labrador Foods (Qld Operations) Enterprise Agreement '2018-2021' (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided a written undertaking. A copy of the undertaking is attached at Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertaking will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and the undertaking will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertaking referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application, and the accompanying statutory declaration, 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.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), The Australian Workers’ Union, and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s 183 of the Act that they seek to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declarations provided by the organisations, I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 10 July 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 17 July 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 April 2021.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A