The Society for the Mount Isa Memorial Garden Settlement for the Aged t/a The Laura Johnson Home

[2016] FWCA 6722

[2016] FWCA 6722

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

The Society for the Mount Isa Memorial Garden Settlement for the Aged t/a The Laura Johnson Home
(AG2016/3940)

THE LAURA JOHNSON HOME ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2016

Aged care industry
COMMISSIONER JOHNS	SYDNEY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2016

Application for approval of The Laura Johnson Home Enterprise Agreement 2016.

[1] On 15 July 2016, The Society for the Mount Isa Memorial Garden Settlement for the Aged t/a The Laura Johnson Home (Applicant) made an application for approval of The Laura Johnson Home Enterprise Agreement 2016 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (Act). The Agreement is a single -enterprise agreement.

[2] The Agreement was lodged within 14 days after it was made.

[3] The Applicant has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached as Annexure A. The Commission is 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. In any case, The Australian Workers’ Union has signed the undertakings to indicate its support and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and the Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees has indicated its acceptance of the undertakings.

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

[5] The Australian Workers’ Union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and the Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees, being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s 183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s 201(2), the Commission notes that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[6] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s 54 of the Act the Agreement will operate from 27 September 2016. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2019.

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Annexure A