HGC Commercial Plumbing Pty Ltd

[2025] FWCA 1289

[2025] FWCA 1289

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

HGC Commercial Plumbing Pty Ltd

(AG2025/1017)

HGC COMMERCIAL PLUMBING PTY LTD AND CEPU – PLUMBING DIVISION (VIC) PLUMBING ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Plumbing industry
DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN	MELBOURNE, 17 APRIL 2025

Application for approval of the HGC Commercial Plumbing Pty Ltd and CEPU – Plumbing Division (Vic) Plumbing Enterprise Agreement 2025

1. HGC Commercial Plumbing Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the HGC Commercial Plumbing Pty Ltd and CEPU – Plumbing Division (Vic) Plumbing Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

1. While the application is generally in order, the Agreement was made within 21 days after the last notice of employee representational rights was given. However, I am satisfied that this constitutes a minor procedural or technical error for the purposes of s 188(5)(b) and that the employees covered by the Agreement are 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.

1. On the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying declaration, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval has been met.

1. The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (CEPU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by s 201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the CEPU.

1. The Agreement was approved on 17 April 2025.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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