TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

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Fair Work Act 2009 1050324-1

DEPUTY PRESIDENT SAMS

AM2014/3 AM2014/4 AM2014/5

s.157 - FWC may vary etc. modern awards if necessary to achieve modern awards objective

Application by United Voice - New South Wales Branch
(AM2014/5)
Security Services Industry Award 2010

(ODN AM2008/11)
[MA000016 Print PR985126]]




Sydney

10.02AM, MONDAY, 21 JULY 2014

PN1

THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Can I have the appearances.

PN2

MR N. SWANCOTT: Yes, your Honour, I appear for the applicant union in all three matters. My name is Swancott.

PN3

MR B. FERGUSON: If the commission pleases, my name is Ferguson, initial B. I appear on behalf of the Australian Industry Group in relation to all three matters.

PN4

MS M. TRAVIS: I appear on behalf of MSS Security, Travis M.

PN5

THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Well, Mr Ferguson, I believe you are the bearer of good tidings.

PN6

MR FERGUSON: I believe I am, your Honour. Since we were last before the commission, the union and AI Group have had some fairly productive discussions about the matter and certainly about how it might proceed and, as I understand it, the union’s view is that it does not need to proceed this morning in light of those discussions. I don’t want to take you through all of the detail of those discussions on record but would be quite happy to go off record, if that suits, to convey some of the substance of that to you.

PN7

There will be proposals, as I understand, from the union but the matter should just be adjourned generally and that is why I’d be happy to go off record to discuss some of the reason behind that. It deals in part with the fact that there is some similarity between the matters being dealt with in these proceedings and the four-yearly review and there is a view, as I understand it, that given both sets of proceedings are on foot it may be prudent to let the four-yearly review unfold firstly. As I said, we’d be quite happy to elaborate off record, your Honour.

PN8

THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT: What about MSS’s position now?

PN9

MS TRAVIS: We’re happy to support that.

PN10

MR SWANCOTT: Yes, your Honour.

PN11

THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT: All right, well, I’ll adjourn into private conference.

OFF THE RECORD [10.04AM]
ON THE RECORD [10.10AM]

PN12

THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT: The commission has chaired a private conference with the parties to further understand the background to the application that’s being made at the moment. The application has been adjourned and I propose to grant that adjournment and the matters can be relisted at short notice in light of any future events. Therefore I am able to take these occasions or require them to be registered for all further progress. I thank the parties for their assistance, thank you.

<ADJOURNED INDEFINITELY [10.11AM]