The GFC Group Trust T/A GFC Industries Pty Ltd

[2021] FWCA 3044

[2021] FWCA 3044

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

The GFC Group Trust T/A GFC Industries Pty Ltd
(AG2021/5071)

GFC INDUSTRIES PTY LTD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING STRUCTURAL STEEL WORKSHOP AGREEMENT 2020

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER WILSON	MELBOURNE, 27 MAY 2021

Application for approval of the GFC Industries Pty Ltd Collective Bargaining Structural Steel Workshop Agreement 2020.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the GFC Industries Pty Ltd Collective Bargaining Structural Steel Workshop Agreement 2020 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by The GFC Group Trust T/A GFC Industries Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the agreement.

[3] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[4] The application was not lodged within 14 days after the agreement was made. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b), in all the circumstances I consider it fair to extend the time for making the application to the date it was actually made.

[5] The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) 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.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 3 June 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2023.

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Annexure A