ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS – dispute about matter arising under agreement – s.739 Fair Work Act 2009 – application to deal with dispute under Boeing Australia Component Repairs P/L Enterprise Agreement 2013 to 2016 (Agreement) – whether an employee was entitled to be reclassified from Aerospace Tradesperson 1 (AT1) to Aerospace Tradesperson 2 (AT2) -issues in dispute were: the proper construction of the accountabilities and requirements of an AT2; whether there was a business need for employee to perform those accountabilities and requirements; and whether he achieved those standards – applicant submitted that employee should have been recognised as performing work at AT2 level from when he applied for reclassification and respondent should make back payment for wage differential between two classifications – Commission identified several accountabilities of AT2 classification that employee was not performing and/or achieving, such as assisting team leaders in carrying out assessments of work to be carried out by Tradesperson 1 employees, assisting in the ongoing Internal Quality Auditing of Boeing processes, and undertaking basic estimating tasks – respondent submitted that clause 5.2.2.1 of Agreement concerning progression application applies only when an employee is performing a role of higher classification because of a business need, and not merely because employee holds competencies which employee is not required to utilise in the regular course of work – respondent submitted that there had been insufficient work to justify the existing AT2s to perform their additional accountabilities in this role – Commission held employee was not and had not been performing the accountabilities required of an AT2 – he was not entitled to be reclassified and his reclassification application had been properly refused – no orders necessary. “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) v Boeing Australia Component Repairs P/L
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