Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd

[2017] FWCA 5719

[2017] FWCA 5719

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd
(AG2017/4235)

WARRNAMBOOL CHEESE AND BUTTER EVERYDAY CHEESE (WCB EDC) & NATIONAL UNION OF WORKERS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2017.

Food, beverages and tobacco manufacturing industry
COMMISSIONER GREGORY	MELBOURNE, 2 NOVEMBER 2017

Application for approval of the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Everyday Cheese (WCB EDC) & National Union of Workers Enterprise Agreement 2017.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Everyday Cheese (WCB EDC) & National Union of Workers Enterprise Agreement 2017 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Applicant 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.

[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 National Union of Workers 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.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 9 November 2017. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 March 2020.

COMMISSIONER

Printed by authority of the Commonwealth Government Printer

<Price code J, AE425968  PR597383>

Annexure A