Symal Contractors Pty Ltd

Case

[2023] FWCA 182

19 JANUARY 2023


[2023] FWCA 182

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Symal Contractors Pty Ltd

(AG2022/5454)

SYMAL CONTRACTORS PTY LTD AND THE CFMEU (VICTORIAN CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION) SUBCONTRACTORS CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2020-2023

Building, metal and civil construction industries

DEPUTY PRESIDENT MASSON

MELBOURNE, 19 JANUARY 2023

Application for approval of the SYMAL CONTRACTORS PTY LTD and the CFMEU (Victorian Construction and General Division) Subcontractors Civil and Infrastructure Enterprise Agreement 2020-2023

  1. An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the SYMAL CONTRACTORS PTY LTD and the CFMEU (Victorian Construction and General Division) Subcontractors Civil and Infrastructure Enterprise Agreement 2020-2023 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Symal Contractors Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

  1. 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.

  1. Pursuant to s.202(4) of the Act, the model flexibility term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

  1. The title of the Agreement in the Notice of Employee Representational Rights was different to the title clause in the proposed Agreement. However, I am satisfied that in all of the circumstances and having regard to the Full Bench decision Huntsman Chemical Company Australia Pty Limited T/A RMAX Rigid Cellular Plastics & Others[1], this constitutes a minor procedural or technical error for the purpose of s.188(2)(a). Further, I am satisfied that the employees covered by the Agreement were not likely to be disadvantaged by the error.

  1. The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union 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.

  1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 26 January 2023. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2023.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT


[1] [2019] FWCFB 318.

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