Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd
[2022] FWCA 2474
•22 JULY 2022
| [2022] FWCA 2474 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd
(AG2022/2335)
Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd and CEPU (Plumbing Division) Fire Protection Fabrication Shop Collective Agreement 2022
| Plumbing industry | |
| DEPUTY PRESIDENT COLMAN | MELBOURNE, 22 JULY 2022 |
Application for approval of the Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd and CEPU (Plumbing Division) Fire Protection Fabrication Shop Collective Agreement 2022
Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd has made an application for approval of the Prefab Engineering Pty Ltd and CEPU (Plumbing Division) Fire Protection Fabrication Shop Collective Agreement 2022. (the Agreement) pursuant to s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
While the application is generally in order, the notice of employee representational rights (NERR) provided to employees was not in the correct form. However, in all the circumstances, and having regard to the decision of the Full Bench in Huntsman Chemical Company Australia Pty Limited T/A RMAX Rigid Cellular Plastics & Others,[1] I am satisfied that this constitutes a minor procedural or technical error for the purposes of s 188(2)(a) 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(2) of the Act.
The employer has provided written undertakings, a copy of which 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 they 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, and 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, 188 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval has 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) and based on its declaration, I note that the Agreement covers the CEPU.
The Agreement was approved on 22 July 2022 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 29 July 2022. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 22 July 2026.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
Annexure A
[1] 1 [2019] FWCFB 318
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