Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union

Case

[2025] FWCA 830

6 MARCH 2025


[2025] FWCA 830

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union

(AG2025/348)

TOP UP LABOUR AND THE CFMEU (VICTORIAN CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION) SUBCONTRACTORS LABOUR HIRE ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024-2026

Building, metal and civil construction industries

COMMISSIONER MATHESON

SYDNEY, 6 MARCH 2025

Application to approve the TOP UP LABOUR and the CFMEU (Victorian Construction and General Division) Subcontractors Labour Hire Enterprise Agreement 2024-2026

  1. An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the TOP UP LABOUR and the CFMEU (Victorian Construction and General Division) Subcontractors Labour Hire Enterprise Agreement 2024-2026 (Agreement). The application was made by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (Applicant) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

  1. The notice of employee representational rights that was provided to employees was not in the correct form. In consider this to be a minor procedural or technical error of the nature contemplated by s.188(5) and am satisfied that the employees are not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error.

  1. Subject to the Undertakings, and on the basis of the materials before the Commission, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 of the Act as are relevant to the application for approval of the Agreement have been met.

  1. The Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given 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 that the Agreement covers the organisation.

  2. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 13 March 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 29 May 2026.


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