ENTERPRISE AGREEMENTS – approval – valid vote – s.185 Fair Work Act 2009 – application by Stramit Corporation P/L t/a Stramit Building Products to approve single enterprise agreement – three employees did not vote in secret ballot – employer called the employees to ask which way they were going to vote – Commission satisfied that the three votes may well have affected the outcome of the ballot – unlikely that a vote which is exercised contrary to the notice of the time and place at which the vote will occur, and the voting method which will be used, can be regarded as a valid vote – held the three votes exercised were directly contrary to the notified secret ballot method, time limits and locations – Commission not satisfied s.182(1) of FW Act met – not satisfied Agreement genuinely agreed to by employees – application dismissed. Stramit Building Products Maddington Enterprise Agreement 2016

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