Opus Omnia Pty Ltd Summary

[2025] FWCA 2091

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Opus Omnia Pty Ltd

(AG2025/1759)

OPUS OMNIA PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Manufacturing and associated industries
COMMISSIONER ALLISON	MELBOURNE, 30 JUNE 2025

Application for approval of the Opus Omnia Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025

Opus Omnia Pty Ltd (the Employer) has made an application, pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act), for approval of a single enterprise agreement known as the Opus Omnia Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement).

The minimum hourly rates in clause 7.1 of the Agreement were below Award rates commencing 1 July 2025. Clause 7.3 of the Agreement further guarantees that employees will always be paid at least 10c per hour above the Award rates for the relevant classification. To ensure clarity of minimum pay rates, the Employer provided an undertaking setting out guaranteed minimum pay rates under the Agreement which gives effect to Clause 7.3. The Employer also provided a further undertaking that these pay rates will apply to the period between approval and 1 July 2025.

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. 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 Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 7 July 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 7 July 2028.

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Annexure A

CaseChat Overview and Summary

Opus Omnia Pty Ltd applied to the Fair Work Commission for approval of an enterprise agreement. The applicant is an employer who had entered into an enterprise agreement with its employees represented by the United Voice union. The dispute concerned the terms and conditions of employment, including wages, hours of work, and other matters. The Commission is an industrial relations tribunal with jurisdiction to approve enterprise agreements under the Fair Work Act 2009. The legal issues for the Commission to determine were whether the agreement was made genuinely in the course of genuine bargaining, whether it was in the best interests of the employees, and whether it complied with relevant provisions of the Fair Work Act. The Commission found that the agreement was made genuinely and was in the best interests of the employees. It also found that the agreement complied with the relevant provisions of the Act. The Commission approved the agreement, noting that it provided for fair and reasonable terms and conditions of employment for the employees. The Commission also noted that the agreement provided for a mechanism for resolving disputes between the employer and employees. The applicant's application was successful. The Commission approved the enterprise agreement.

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