Thales Australia Limited

[2013] FWCA 5130

[2013] FWCA 5130

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Thales Australia Limited
(AG2013/2068)

THALES AUSTRALIA BENDIGO ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 29 JULY 2013

Application for approval of the Thales Australia Bendigo Enterprise Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Thales Australia Bendigo Enterprise Agreement 2013 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by Thales Australia Limited. 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] An undertaking has been given in relation to several clauses of the Agreement and those undertakings have become terms of the Agreement in accordance with s.191(1) of the Act and are appended at Appendix A.

[4] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU), Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (APESMA) and National Union of Workers (NUW) being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover them. As required by s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU, AWU, CEPU, APESMA and NUW.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 5 August 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2016.

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