Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd

[2025] FWCA 2457

[2025] FWCA 2457

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

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

Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd

(AG2025/2271)

FURNACE ENGINEERING PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025 – 2028

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER MIRABELLA	MELBOURNE, 25 JULY 2025

Application for approval of the Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025 - 2028

[1]      Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd (the Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Furnace Engineering Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025 – 2028 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2]      The Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Act 2022 (Cth) made a number of changes to the enterprise agreement approval processes in Part 2­­–4 of the Act, that commenced operation on 6 June 2023. The notification time for the Agreement was 5 June 2025 and the Agreement was made on 27 June 2025. Accordingly, both the genuine agreement and the better off overall test requirements are those applying on and from 6 June 2023.

[3]      The Agreement title in the Notice of Employee Representation Rights (NERR) differs from the title of the Agreement to be approved. Pursuant to s.188(5) of the Act, I am satisfied that the Agreement would have been genuinely agreed to but for the minor procedural error made in relation to the requirement in s.174(1A) of the Act. I am satisfied 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 to within the meaning of s.188(5) of the Act.

[4]      The Applicant has 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.

[5]       In compliance with s 190(4) of the Act, the bargaining representatives’ views regarding the undertakings proffered were sought. They were provided with the opportunity to raise and address any objections they had to the undertakings proffered by the Applicant. No objection was raised.

[6]      Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying declarations, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186, 187, 188, and 190 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[7]      The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 1 August 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2028.

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