Allen Taylor & Company Ltd
[2025] FWCA 2045
•20 JUNE 2025
| [2025] FWCA 2045 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Allen Taylor & Company Ltd
(AG2025/1766)
PENTARCH FORESTRY HERONS CREEK ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024
| Timber and paper products industry | |
| COMMISSIONER CRAWFORD | SYDNEY, 20 JUNE 2025 |
Application for approval of the Pentarch Forestry Herons Creek Enterprise Agreement 2024
An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Pentarch Forestry Herons Creek Enterprise Agreement 2024 (Agreement). The Application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) by Allen Taylor & Company Ltd (Applicant). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
The Applicant has provided written undertakings. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each requirement of ss.186, 187 and 188 of the FW Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.
Noting the undertakings provided, I am satisfied that the more beneficial entitlements of the NES in the Act will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.
The Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union – Manufacturing Division (CFMEU) lodged a Form F18 statutory declaration giving notice under s.183 of the FW Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) of the FW Act, I note the Agreement covers the CFMEU.
The Agreement is approved and will operate from seven days after approval in accordance with s.54 of the FW Act. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 20 June 2028.
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