ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS – employee organisation coverage – ss.590, 604 Fair Work Act – permission to appeal – Full Bench – appellant applied for permission to appeal interim decision arising from application for approval of Agreement at first instance – Commission granted standing for unions as interveners in first instance matter – found entitled to appear and be heard in respect of proceedings – appellant claimed decision at first instance inconsistent with Collinsville Coal decision – Full Bench must be satisfied public interest test met – might be attracted where matter raises issues of importance and general application [GlaxoSmithKline] – Full Bench found appeal against interlocutory procedural decision usually deprecated and will not usually be case that permission would be granted – found no reason to think decision will affect prospects of appellant ultimately succeeding in application for approval – Full Bench disagreed with appellant submission that interim decision substantive rather than procedural – Full Bench found decision at first instance consistent with Collinsville – authority for the proposition that union which was not bargaining representative for enterprise agreement did not have right to be heard in relation to application for approval of agreement simply because it had representational rights in respect of employees who might be employed under the agreement in future – decision made in exercise of broad discretionary power – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Inco Ships P/L against decision of Cambridge C of 16 March 2016 [[2016] FWC 1637] Re: The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers & Anor
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