ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS – genuinely agree – ss.185, 188, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – permission to appeal – Full Bench – at first instance the Deputy President dismissed the application for the approval of the JBU Enterprise Agreement 2016 – the Agreement had earlier been approved in a decision of the Commission issued on 18 November 2016 [[2016] FWCA 8209]; see also [[2016] FWC 7936] – that decision was the subject of an appeal by United Voice – in a decision issued on 14 February 2017, a Full Bench of the Commission quashed the decision to approve the Agreement, and referred the application to the Deputy President for redetermination [[2017] FWCFB 871] – grounds for appeal included the Deputy President erred by finding the work undertaken by employees who made the Proposed Agreement was not work the Proposed Agreement would, if approved, cover; and the finding regarding coverage did not support a finding that the Proposed Agreement was genuinely agreed to – the Deputy President proceeded on the basis that s.188 of the FW Act was premised on the proposition there had to be genuine agreement on the part of employees who were covered by the agreement at the time it was made – Full Bench did not consider the decision at first instance was attended by sufficient doubt such as to require the grant of permission to appeal in the public interest or to justify the grant of permission on a discretionary basis – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Broadspectrum Limited t/a Broadspectrum against decision of Kovacic DP of 31 March 2017 [[2017] FWC 1818] Re: United Voice
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