Visy Packaging Pty Ltd T/A Visy Beverage
[2022] FWCA 3665
•20 OCTOBER 2022
| [2022] FWCA 3665 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Visy Packaging Pty Ltd T/A Visy Beverage
(AG2022/4188)
Visy Beverage Can (Smithfield) Collective Agreement 2021
| Manufacturing and associated industries | |
| COMMISSIONER JOHNS | MELBOURNE, 20 OCTOBER 2022 |
Application for approval of the Visy Beverage Can (Smithfield) Collective Agreement 2021
An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Visy Beverage Can (Smithfield) Collective 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 Visy Packaging Pty Ltd T/A Visy Beverage. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
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.
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.
I observe that certain provisions of the Agreement are likely to be inconsistent with the National Employment Standards (NES). However, noting clause 6 of the Agreement, I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.
The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisation.
The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 27 October 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 July 2024.
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