Northern Co-Operative Meat Company

[2020] FWCA 6927

[2020] FWCA 6927

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Northern Co-Operative Meat Company
(AG2020/3679)

NORTHERN CO-OPERATIVE MEAT COMPANY LTD MAINTENANCE AND SERVICES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Meat Industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE	SYDNEY, 21 DECEMBER 2020

Application for approval of the Northern Co-Operative Meat Company Ltd Maintenance and Services Enterprise Agreement 2019.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Northern Co-Operative Meat Company Ltd Maintenance and Services Enterprise Agreement 2019 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Northern Co-Operative Meat Company (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 15 December 2020. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

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

[4] I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[5] The following employee organisations (all of which were bargaining representatives for the Agreement), have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want to be covered by the Agreement:

(a) Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia;

(b) Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU); and

(c) Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union.

[6] In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[7] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 28 December 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 11 October 2024.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A