Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd

[2015] FWCA 4611

[2015] FWCA 4611

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2015/3165)

SONOCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD MELBOURNE PLANT WORKPLACE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT 2015

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COMMISSIONER CRIBB	MELBOURNE, 8 JULY 2015

Application for approval of the Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd Melbourne Plant Workplace Improvement Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd Melbourne Plant Workplace Improvement Agreement 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd. 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) of the Act I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[4] The Agreement was approved in Chambers on 8 July 2015 and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 15 July 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 18 June 2018.

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