Ricegrowers Limited
[2022] FWCA 2072
•23 JUNE 2022
| [2022] FWCA 2072 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Ricegrowers Limited
(AG2022/1630)
SunRice, AGS and CopRice Maintenance Employees Enterprise Agreement 2022-2024
| Food, beverages and tobacco manufacturing industry | |
| COMMISSIONER MCKINNON | SYDNEY, 23 JUNE 2022 |
Application for approval of the SunRice, AGS and CopRice Maintenance Employees Enterprise Agreement 2022-2024
Ricegrowers Limited T/A SunRice, CopRice Feeds and Australian Grain Storage Pty Ltd has applied for approval of a single enterprise agreement known as the SunRice, AGS and CopRice Maintenance Employees Enterprise Agreement 2022-2024 (the Agreement).
The notice of employee representational rights given to employees did not reflect amendments made to the prescribed form in 2017 and as a result, was not in the form prescribed by s.174(1A) of the Fair Work Act 2009 and Schedule 2.1 to the Fair Work Regulations 2009. In the circumstances, including a high level of employee engagement in the appointment of bargaining representatives and active union representation in the bargaining process, employees were not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error. The error is a minor technical error for the purpose of s.188(2) of the Act.
A written undertaking has been given in accordance with section 190 of the Act and is attached at Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertaking is not likely to cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and does not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. The undertaking is taken to be a term of the Agreement.
The Agreement is approved and will operate from 30 June 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 April 2024.
The Agreement covers the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU).
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