Re: Making of a modern award Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award State 2014

[2014] QIRC 137

QUEENSLAND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION

CITATION:	Re: Making of a modern award - Queensland
Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014 [2014] QIRC 137
PARTIES:	Queensland Agricultural Training Colleges
Together Queensland, Industrial Union of Employees
United Voice, Industrial Union of Employees, Queensland
CASE NO:	MA/2014/111
PROCEEDING:	Making of a modern award
DELIVERED ON:	28 August 2014
HEARING DATE:	18 August 2014
MEMBERS:	Deputy President O'Connor
Deputy President Kaufman Industrial Commissioner Neate
ORDERS:	1.  That the Queensland Agricultural Colleges

Award - State 2014 be made.

2.      That the Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014 be operative on and from 31 August 2014.

3.      That the Agricultural Colleges (Domestic and General Staff) Award - State 2012 and the

Agricultural Colleges of Queensland (Excluding Domestic and General Staff)

Award - State 2012 are repealed on and from 31 August 2014 subject to the provisions of s 824 of the Industrial Relations Act 1999.

CATCHWORDS:	MAKING OF A MODERN AWARD - Section 140C(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1999 - request from the Attorney-General and Minister for
Justice - Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award –
State 2014 - Modern Award made.
CASES:	Industrial Relations Act 1999 Chapter 5 Division 2, ss 140C(1), 140CE, 824.
APPEARANCES:	Mr P. Goodwin of the Queensland Agricultural
Training Colleges.
Mr R. Rule of Together Queensland, Industrial Union of Employees. Ms K. Badke of United Voice, Industrial Union of Employees, Queensland.

Decision

[1] In accordance with Chapter 5 Division 2 of the Industrial Relations Act 1999 ("the Act") (i.e. the Modern Award provisions of the Act) and the Request under s 140C(1) - Award Modernisation by the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, the Award Modernisation Team ("AMOD Team") of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission has prepared an Exposure Draft of a proposed Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014 ("Proposed Award").

[2]        The Proposed Award was prepared by the AMOD Team in consultation with Queensland Agricultural Training Colleges; Together Queensland, Industrial Union of Employees; and United Voice, Industrial Union of Employees, Queensland.

[3]        Deputy President Bloomfield referred a finalised version of the Proposed Award to the Vice President for referral to a Full Bench of the Commission indicating that the abovementioned organisations had reached agreement on the terms of the Proposed Award. The Vice President referred the Proposed Award to this Full Bench.

[4] We have been advised that the Proposed Award complies with the Act.

[5]        We are advised that the Agricultural Colleges (Domestic and General Staff) Award - State 2012 and the Agricultural Colleges of Queensland (Excluding Domestic and General Staff) Award - State 2012 are awards of the Commission which have current application and will thus be repealed upon the making of any modern award subject to the provisions of s 824 of the Industrial Relations Act 1999.

[6]        Having heard from the representatives of the parties referred to in Clause 4 of the Proposed Award, and by consent of those parties, we make the following orders:

(i)	That the Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014 be made;
(ii)	That the Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014 operate on and from 31 August 2014;
(iii)	That, given the making of the Queensland Agricultural Colleges Award - State 2014, the Agricultural Colleges (Domestic and General Staff) Award - State 2012 and the Agricultural Colleges of Queensland (Excluding Domestic and General Staff) Award - State 2012 are repealed on and from 31 August 2014 subject to the provisions of s 824 of the Industrial Relations Act 1999.