Specialty Packaging Group Pty Ltd

[2016] FWCA 864

[2016] FWCA 864

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Specialty Packaging Group Pty Ltd
(AG2015/7251)

SPECIALTY PACKAGING GROUP (VICTORIA) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2015

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VICE PRESIDENT WATSON	MELBOURNE, 9 FEBRUARY 2016

Application for approval of the Specialty Packaging Group (Victoria) Enterprise Agreement 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Specialty Packaging Group (Victoria) Enterprise Agreement 2015. The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Specialty Packaging Group Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] A written undertaking dated 21 December 2015 has been received from the employer concerning redundancy pay, and the definition of a shift worker for the purposes of calculating annual leave. Pursuant to s.191 of the Act, the undertaking is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A copy of the undertaking is annexed to this decision and to the Agreement.

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

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) 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.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 16 February 2016. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2018.

VICE PRESIDENT

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