CME Group Pty Ltd

[2025] FWCA 2749

[2025] FWCA 2749

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

CME Group Pty Ltd

(AG2025/2249)

CME RESOURCES PTY LTD SINGLE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024

Electrical contracting industry
COMMISSIONER THORNTON	ADELAIDE, 18 AUGUST 2025

Application for approval of the CME Resources Pty Ltd Single Enterprise Agreement 2024

1. An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the CME Resources Pty Ltd Single Enterprise Agreement 2024 (the Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by CME Group Pty Ltd (the Applicant). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

1. The Notice of Employee Representational Rights (NERR) provided to the employees was not in the prescribed form. It is in the form as prescribed prior to 6 June 2023. I am satisfied that the Agreement would have been genuinely agreed to but for the slight departure from the NERR requirements in s. 174(1)(A)(c) and that the employees covered by the Agreement were not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error. As a result, I am satisfied that the Agreement has been genuinely agreed within the meaning of s.188 of the Act and exercise the discretion conferred by section 188(5) of the Act to disregard the minor technical error.

1. 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.

1. Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each requirement of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

1. The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU) lodged a Form F18 statutory declaration giving notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note the Agreement covers the CEPU.

1. The Agreement is approved and will operate in accordance with s.54 of the Act from 25 August 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 18 August 2029.

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