SPC Ardmona Operations Limited

[2013] FWCA 552

[2013] FWCA 552

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

SPC Ardmona Operations Limited
(AG2012/13139)

SPC ARDMONA OPERATIONS SHEPPARTON/MOOROOPNA (FOOD PRESERVERS) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2012

Food, beverages and tobacco manufacturing industry
COMMISSIONER GREGORY	MELBOURNE, 5 MARCH 2013

Application for approval of the SPC Ardmona Operations Shepparton/Mooroopna (Food Preservers) Enterprise Agreement 2012.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the SPC Ardmona Operations Shepparton/Mooroopna (Food Preservers) Enterprise Agreement 2012 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by SPC Ardmona Operations Limited. 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 of the Act, will operate from 12 March 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2014.

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