Ready Workforce Pty Ltd T/A Chandler Macleod

[2014] FWCA 5789

[2014] FWCA 5789

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Ready Workforce Pty Ltd T/A Chandler Macleod
(AG2014/7141)

CHANDLER MACLEOD GUNNEDAH BASIN COAL MINING AGREEMENT 2014

Coal industry
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT HAMBERGER	SYDNEY, 21 AUGUST 2014

Application for approval of the Chandler Macleod Gunnedah Basin Coal Mining Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Chandler Macleod Gunnedah Basin Coal Mining Agreement 2014 (“the Agreement”). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Northern Mining & NSW Energy District. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] I am satisfied each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 relevant to this application for approval has been met.

[3] I am satisfied that the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of the employees to be covered by the Agreement, and that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from

28 August 2014. The nominal expiry date is 3 years from approval.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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