RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd

[2020] FWCA 1071

[2020] FWCA 1071 [Note: a correction has been issued to this document]

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd
(AG2019/4954)

RCR HEAT TREATMENT PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BEAUMONT	PERTH, 26 FEBRUARY 2020

Application for approval of the RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019.

[1] RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd has made an application for the approval of an enterprise agreement known as the RCR Heat Treatment Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement). The application was made under s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Applicant has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. I am 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.

[3] In compliance with s 190(4) of the Act, the bargaining representative’s views regarding the undertakings proffered were sought. They were provided with the opportunity to raise and address any objections they had to the undertakings proffered by the Applicant. No objection was raised.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and 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.

[5] The Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (the organisation),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), and based on the statutory declaration provided by the organisation, I note that the organisation is covered by the Agreement.

[6] The Agreement was approved on 26 February 2020 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 4 March 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 26 February 2020.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A