Santos Limited

[2013] FWCA 7100

[2013] FWCA 7100

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Santos Limited
(AG2013/2760)

SANTOS LTD COOPER BASIN ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Oil and gas industry
COMMISSIONER HAMPTON	ADELAIDE, 17 SEPTEMBER 2013

Application for approval of the Santos Ltd Cooper Basin Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Santos Ltd Cooper Basin Enterprise Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Santos Ltd. The Agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In reaching this conclusion, I note that the reference award for the purposes of s.193 of the Act is the Santos Ltd - Cooper Basin Operations - Hydrocarbons Award 1998 [AP796095], being an Enterprise Award that has been preserved by virtue of Item 2 of Schedule 3 of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009.

[3] The Australian Workers’ Union - South Australian Branch and the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have each given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 24 September 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 4 July 2016.

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