Sims Metal Managment

[2013] FWCA 7097

[2013] FWCA 7097

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Sims Metal Managment
(AG2013/9388)

SIMSMETAL SPEARWOOD COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT WATSON	MELBOURNE, 19 SEPTEMBER 2013

Application for approval of the Simsmetal Spearwood Collective Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Simsmetal Spearwood Collective Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Sims Metal Management. The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] 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) being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 26 September 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 October 2016.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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