Worthwhile Recruiting Pty Ltd

[2014] FWCA 3686

[2014] FWCA 3686

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

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

Worthwhile Recruiting Pty Ltd
(AG2014/1221)

WORTHWHILE RECRUITING PTY LTD NSW LABOUR HIRE UNION ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Electrical contracting industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT LAWRENCE	SYDNEY, 3 JUNE 2014

Application for approval of the Worthwhile Recruiting Pty Ltd NSW Labour Hire Union Enterprise Agreement.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Worthwhile Recruiting Pty Ltd NSW Labour Hire Union Enterprise Agreement (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 f the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Worthwhile Recruiting Pty Ltd. The Agreement is a greenfields agreement.

[2] The Agreement was not lodged within 14 days after it was made. Pursuant to s.185(3)(b) I consider it fair to extend the time for making this application.

[3] I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss186 and 187 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In particular, I am satisfied that the employee organisation, the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, is entitled to represent the industrial interests of a majority of employees who will be covered by the Agreement in relation to work that is to be performed under it. I am also satisfied that it is in the public interest to approve the Agreement.

[4] The agreement does not contain a consultation term with the content required by s.205(1) and (1A). Accordingly, in accordance with s.205(2), the model consultation term contained in Schedule 2.3 of the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the agreement.

[5] The Agreement is approved. In accordance with s.54(1), it will operate from 10 June 2014. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 15 May 2015.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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