Timberlink Australia Pty Ltd

[2019] FWCA 7236

[2019] FWCA 7236

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Timberlink Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2019/3084)

TIMBERLINK AUSTRALIA TARPEENA SITE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2019

Timber and paper products industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 24 OCTOBER 2019

Application for approval of the Timberlink Australia Tarpeena Site Enterprise Agreement 2019

[1] Timberlink Australia Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Timberlink Australia Tarpeena Site Enterprise Agreement 2019 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). 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, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying statutory declaration, 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 Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, has each given notice under s 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s 201(2) and based on the statutory declaration provided by these organisations, I note that the Agreement covers these organisations.

[5] The Agreement was approved on 24 October 2019 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 31 October 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A