Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 1917

[2019] FWCA 1917

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2018/5919)

SAPUTO DAIRY AUSTRALIA PTY LTD AND THE AMWU AND ETU RELIABILITY AGREEMENT 2018

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 12 APRIL 2019

Application for approval of the Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd and the AMWU and ETU Reliability Agreement 2018.

[1] Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Saputo Dairy Australia Pty Ltd and the AMWU and ETU Reliability Agreement 2018 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] 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 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] 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 being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s 183 of the Act that they seek to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declaration provided by these organisations, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[4] The Agreement was approved on 12 April 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 19 April 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 April 2021.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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