Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia

[2015] FWCA 83

[2015] FWCA 83

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
(AG2014/10384)

GEOFABRICS AUSTRALASIA PTY LTD ALBURY MANUFACTURING UNION COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT, 2014

Clothing industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT LAWRENCE	SYDNEY, 7 JANUARY 2015

Application for approval of the Geofabrics Australasia Pty Ltd Albury Manufacturing Union Collective Agreement, 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Geofabrics Australasia Pty Ltd Albury Manufacturing Union Collective Agreement, 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The agreement is a single-enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] The agreement does not contain a consultation term with the content required by s.205(1) and (1A). Accordingly, in accordance with s.205(2), the model consultation term contained in Schedule 2.3 of the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the agreement.

[4] The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia, being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.

[5] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s.54(1) it will operate from 14 January 2015. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 14 January 2018.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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