The Bacon Factories' Union of Employees, Queensland v Primo Foods Pty Ltd

[2019] FWC 6039

[2019] FWC 6039

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.437—Protected action

The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union; The Bacon Factories’ Union of Employees, Queensland
v
Primo Foods Pty Ltd
(B2019/715)

VICE PRESIDENT CATANZARITI SYDNEY, 3 SEPTEMBER 2019

Proposed protected action ballot of employees of Primo Foods Pty Ltd.

[1] This is an application by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union and the Bacon Factories’ Union of Employees, Queensland (Applicants) made under s.437 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act) for a protected action ballot order in relation to certain employees of Primo Foods Pty Ltd (Respondent).

[2] On 29 August 2019, the Fair Work Commission was advised that the Respondent does not oppose the application.

[3] In the circumstances, I have decided to determine the matter on the papers without holding a hearing.

[4] On the basis of the material before me, including the statutory declarations of Warren Earle and Steven Vaughan of the Applicants setting out the steps taken by it in bargaining with the Respondent and that it has been, and is, genuinely trying to reach agreement with the Respondent, I am satisfied that there is a notification time in relation to the proposed agreement and that the requirements in s.443(1) of the Act have been met.

[5] An order has been separately issued in PR711840.

VICE PRESIDENT

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