Hindmarsh Plumbing Services Pty Limited
[2025] FWCA 2698
•12 AUGUST 2025
| [2025] FWCA 2698 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement
Hindmarsh Plumbing Services Pty Limited
(AG2025/2184)
HINDMARSH PLUMBING SERVICES PTY. LTD (SERVICE TEAM) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025
| Plumbing industry | |
| COMMISSIONER MIRABELLA | MELBOURNE, 12 AUGUST 2025 |
Application for approval of the Hindmarsh Plumbing Services Pty. Ltd (Service Team) Enterprise Agreement 2025
An application has been made for the approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Hindmarsh Plumbing Services Pty. Ltd (Service Team) Enterprise Agreement 2025. The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). It has been made by Hindmarsh Plumbing Services Pty Limited (the Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
The Agreement does not contain a delegates’ rights term, as required by s. 205A(1) of the Act. Pursuant to s. 205A(2) of the Act, the workplace delegates’ rights term from the Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A copy of the workplace delegates’ rights term can be found in Annexure C.
The Employer provided written undertakings to address certain National Employment Standards (NES) and BOOT issues. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure B of the Agreement. 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.
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.
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. In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the CEPU.
The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 19 August 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 1 July 2029.
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