Thiess Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 5045

[2014] FWCA 5045

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Thiess Pty Ltd
(AG2014/1681)

THIESS (SYDNEY WATER O&M) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2014

Manufacturing and associated industries
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT DRAKE	SYDNEY, 25 JULY 2014

Application for approval of the Thiess (Sydney Water O&M) Enterprise Agreement 2014.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Thiess (Sydney Water O&M) Enterprise Agreement 2014 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Thiess Pty Ltd. The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

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

[3] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186, 187 and 188 of the Act as are relevant to the application for approval have been met.

[4] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia and the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, both being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s201(2) of the Act I note that the Agreement covers those organisations.

[5] The Agreement was entered into on the basis that:

a) Thiess had agreed to backdate payments to MERT of $50 from 1 July 2013, $67, then $70 as per the agreement;

b) Thiess had agreed to allow existing employees with an Electrician’s Licence to remain on their existing classification levels ie. if Level 4 now, stay at Level 4 in the new Agreement (not Level 3);

c) The Electrician’s Licence to be “all purpose”;

d) The Recreational Day to be taken before Christmas 2014 and

e) If a person on the draft Agreement was entitled to be re-classified (as per original matrix), that re-classification will be honoured.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s54 of the Act, will operate from 1 August 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2017.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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