Transfield Services (Australia) Pty Limited T/A Transfield Services
[2014] FWCA 4868
•21 JULY 2014
[2014] FWCA 4868 |
FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a greenfields agreement
Transfield Services (Australia) Pty Limited T/A Transfield Services
(AG2014/1788)
TRANSFIELD SERVICES (MILLMERRAN POWER STATION-QLD) GREENFIELDS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2014 - 2017
Manufacturing and associated industries | |
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT WATSON | MELBOURNE, 21 JULY 2014 |
Application for approval of the Transfield Services (Millmerran Power Station-QLD) Greenfields Enterprise Agreement 2014-2017.
[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Transfield Services (Millmerran Power Station-QLD) Greenfields Enterprise Agreement 2014 - 2017 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Transfield Services (Australia) Pty Limited T/A Transfield Services and two employee organisations namely the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) (the AMWU). The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.
[2] I have considered the matters contained in the employer declaration and the declarations made on behalf of the CEPU and the AMWU which will be covered by the Agreement.
[3] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In accordance with s.187(5)(a) of the Act, I am satisfied that the employee organisations, taken as a group, are entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.
[4] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54, will operate from 28 July 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 August 2017.
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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