Unilever Australia Trading Limited

[2021] FWCA 5395

[2021] FWCA 5395

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Unilever Australia Trading Limited
(AG2021/6634)

UNILEVER NORTH ROCKS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021

Manufacturing and associated industries
DEPUTY PRESIDENT CROSS	SYDNEY, 31 AUGUST 2021

Application for approval of the Unilever North Rocks Enterprise Agreement 2021.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Unilever North Rocks Enterprise Agreement 2021 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Unilever Australia Trading Limited. 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, 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] Pursuant to s.205(2) of the Act, the model consultation term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[5] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union (AMWU) and the Australian Workers Union (AWU) being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have respectively given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover their organisations. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers those organisations.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from seven days of the date of this approval. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 16 June 2023.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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ANNEXURE A