Meredith Roof Plumbing Pty Ltd

Case

[2025] FWCA 199

20 JANUARY 2025


[2025] FWCA 199

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

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

Meredith Roof Plumbing Pty Ltd

(AG2024/4905)

MEREDITH ROOF PLUMBING PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024-2028

Plumbing industry

DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE

SYDNEY, 20 JANUARY 2025

Application for approval of the Meredith Roof Plumbing Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2024-2028

  1. An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Meredith Roof Plumbing Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2024-2028 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Meredith Roof Plumbing Pty Ltd (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement. 

  1. On the application, the signatory for the Employees has not indicated their title with the Employer and/or Union. The Applicant provided a revised signature page on 16 January 2025 to the Commission reflecting the required information. I am satisfied that these corrections should be made, and that it is appropriate to do so. Pursuant to s.586 of the Act, I make the corrections. 

Undertakings 

  1. The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 15 January 2025. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement. 

Conclusion 
 

  1. Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188, 190, 193 and 193A of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.

  1. I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES. 

  1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 27 January 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 20 January 2029. 

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

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