Silliker Australia Pty Ltd T/A Merieux NutriSciences

[2021] FWCA 5582

[2021] FWCA 5582

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Silliker Australia Pty Ltd T/A Merieux NutriSciences
(AG2021/6749)

SILLIKER AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ENTERPRISE (KNOWN AS MERIEUX NUTRISCIENCES OR MXNS) AGREEMENT 2020

Scientific services
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE	SYDNEY, 7 SEPTEMBER 2021

Application for approval of the Silliker Australia Pty Ltd Enterprise (known as Merieux NutriSciences or MXNS) Agreement 2020.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Silliker Australia Pty Ltd Enterprise (known as Merieux NutriSciences or MXNS) Agreement 2020 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Silliker Australia Pty Ltd T/A Merieux NutriSciences (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 6 September 2021. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020, Professional Employees Award 2020 and Clerks – Private Sector Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[3] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers this organisation.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.

[5] I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 14 September 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 14 September 2023.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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