ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS – genuinely agree – ss.185, 186 Fair Work Act 2009 – application for approval of a single enterprise agreement by McDermott Australia P/L – statutory declarations were lodged by the AWU and AMWU – both unions indicated they opposed the approval of the agreement – two grounds of objection were that the application was not accompanied by a properly signed copy of the agreement and that the Commission cannot be satisfied that the employees genuinely agreed to the agreement – Swinburne considered – clear evidence that the request to employees to approve the agreement by voting for it was made to employees who were not ’employed at the time’ – Commission not satisfied that the agreement was genuinely agreed to pursuant to s.186(2)(a) of FW Act – cannot approve agreement – application dismissed. McDermott Australia P/L Ichthys Project Offshore Construction Agreement 2016
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