Ausgrid Management Pty Ltd T/A Ausgrid
[2025] FWCA 493
•7 FEBRUARY 2025
| [2025] FWCA 493 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Ausgrid Management Pty Ltd T/A Ausgrid
(AG2025/23)
AUSGRID ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024
| Electrical power industry | |
| COMMISSIONER P RYAN | SYDNEY, 7 FEBRUARY 2025 |
Application for approval of the Ausgrid Enterprise Agreement 2024
Ausgrid Management Pty Ltd (Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Ausgrid Enterprise Agreement 2024 (Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
Section 190 Undertakings
The Employer provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. 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. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.
Sections 186, 187, 188 and 190
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the FW Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. In coming to this conclusion, I have had regard to the material contained in the application, the accompanying declaration, the responses to issues identified, and the Statement of Principles.[1]
National Employment Standards
I observe that clause 3.6 of the Agreement provides that the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.
Section 183 Bargaining Representatives
The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (APESMA), the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (ASU), the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), and the Mining and Energy Union (MEU), each being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, have given notice under s.183 of the FW Act that they want the Agreement to cover them.
In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU, the APESMA, the ASU, the CEPU, the CPSU, and the MEU.
Approval
The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the FW Act, will operate from 14 February 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 September 2027.
COMMISSIONER
Annexure A
[1] Fair Work (Statement of Principles on Genuine Agreement) Instrument 2023.
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