The Australian Workers’ Union

[2013] FWCA 1395

[2013] FWCA 1395

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

The Australian Workers’ Union
(AG2013/424)

S&B BLASTING PTY LTD SHUTDOWN AGREEMENT 2013

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER RYAN	MELBOURNE, 6 MARCH 2013

Application for approval of the S&B Blasting Pty Ltd Shutdown Agreement 2013.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Swire Industrial Services Agreement Western Port 2012-2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) and was made by The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU). The agreement is a greenfields agreement.

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

[3] I am satisfied that the AWU, the employee organisation to be covered by the agreement, is 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.

[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54(1), will operate from 13 March 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 September 2013.

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