Veolia Water Operations

[2021] FWCA 5003

[2021] FWCA 5003

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Veolia Water Operations
(AG2021/6466)

VEOLIA MT PIPER POWER STATION WATER TREATMENT PLANT OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2021

Electrical power industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE	SYDNEY, 13 AUGUST 2021

Application for approval of the Veolia Mt Piper Power Station Water Treatment Plant Operations & Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2021.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Veolia Mt Piper Power Station Water Treatment Plant Operations & Maintenance Enterprise Agreement 2021 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Veolia Water Operations (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 12 August 2021. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Electrical Power Industry Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[3] The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers this organisation.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.

[5] I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 20 August 2021. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 13 August 2022.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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Annexure A