STRIK Group Pty Ltd

[2020] FWCA 3746

[2020] FWCA 3746

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

STRIK Group Pty Ltd
(AG2020/1787)

STRIK GROUP PTY LTD QUEEN'S WHARF PROJECT AGREEMENT

Building, metal and civil construction industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT MASSON	MELBOURNE, 16 JULY 2020

Application for approval of the STRIK GROUP PTY LTD Queen's Wharf Project Agreement.

[1] An application has been made for approval of a greenfields agreement known as the STRIK GROUP PTY LTD Queen’s Wharf Project Agreement (the Agreement). The application was made by STRIK Group Pty Ltd pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act).

[2] This is a greenfields agreement that meets the requirements of section 172(2)(b) of the Act. I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In accordance with s.187(5)(a) of the Act, I am satisfied that the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) are entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[3] The Applicant has provided written undertakings and a copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. In accordance with s.191(1) of the Act, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[4] Pursuant to s.53(2)(b) of the Act I note the Agreement was made with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union, Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 23 July 2020. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 November 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A