Western Sheetmetal lnsulation & Asbestos Removal Ply Ltd

[2019] FWCA 1881

[2019] FWCA 1881

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement

Western Sheetmetal lnsulation & Asbestos Removal Ply Ltd
(AG2018/5488)

WESTERN SHEETMETAL INSULATION & ASBESTOS REMOVAL PTY LTD AND THE AMWU / AWU (ALTONA AREA) AGREEMENT 2018

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER BISSETT	MELBOURNE, 22 MARCH 2019

Application for approval of the Western Sheetmetal Insulation & Asbestos Removal Pty Ltd and the AMWU / AWU (Altona Area) Agreement 2018.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Western Sheetmetal Insulation & Asbestos Removal Pty Ltd and the AMWU / AWU (Altona Area) Agreement 2018 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Western Sheetmetal lnsulation & Asbestos Removal Ply Ltd. The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[3] The application was not lodged within 14 days after the agreement was made. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b), in all the circumstances I consider it fair to extend the time for making the application to the date it was actually made.

[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 Australian Workers’ Union and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) being bargaining representatives for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the Act that they want the Agreement to cover them. In accordance with s.201(2) I note that the Agreement covers the organisations.

[6] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 29 March 2019. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2021.

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