UGL Operations & Maintenance Pty Ltd

[2013] FWCA 6597

[2013] FWCA 6597

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

UGL Operations & Maintenance Pty Ltd
(AG2013/2192)

UGL OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE PTY LTD (CALTEX LYTTON REFINERY - QLD) UNION AGREEMENT 2013 - 2015

Manufacturing and associated industries
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT DRAKE	SYDNEY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2013

Application for approval of the UGL Operations & Maintenance Pty Ltd (Caltex Lytton Refinery - QLD) Union Agreement 2013 - 2015.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the UGL Operations & Maintenance Pty Ltd (Caltex Lytton Refinery - QLD) Union Agreement 2013 - 2015 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act).

[2] It has been made by UGL Operations & maintenance Pty Ltd and nominates the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union (AMWU) and Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) as the relevant Employee Organisations with which the Agreement was made. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

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

[4] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186 and 187 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In particular, I am satisfied that the AMWU & AWU 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.

[5] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s54 of the Act, will operate from 12 September 2013. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 June 2015.

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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