Simplot Australia Pty Ltd

[2013] FWCA 4065

[2013] FWCA 4065

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Simplot Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2013/6914)

GIPPSLAND FOOD COMPANY (MAINTENANCE EMPLOYEES) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2012 - 2015

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 24 JUNE 2013

Application for approval of the Gippsland Food Company (Maintenance Employees) Enterprise Agreement 2012 - 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Gippsland Food Company (Maintenance Employees) Enterprise Agreement 2012 - 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Simplot Australia Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] An undertaking has been given in relation to clause 38.6.1 of the Agreement and this undertaking has become a term of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(2) of the Act and is appended at Appendix A.

[4] 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), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover them. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU and CEPU.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 1 July 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2015.

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