Real Pet Food Company Pty Ltd

Case

[2025] FWCA 818

5 MARCH 2025


[2025] FWCA 818

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Real Pet Food Company Pty Ltd

(AG2025/405)

REAL PET FOOD COMPANY-DUBBO ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024

Food, beverages and tobacco manufacturing industry

COMMISSIONER P RYAN

SYDNEY, 5 MARCH 2025

Application for approval of the Real Pet Food Company-Dubbo Enterprise Agreement 2024

  1. Real Pet Food Company Pty Ltd (Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Real Pet Food Company-Dubbo Enterprise Agreement 2024 (Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

Section 190 Undertakings

  1. The Employer provided written undertakings. 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.

Sections 186, 187, 188 and 190

  1. Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the FW Act are relevant to this application for approval has been met. In coming to this conclusion, I have had regard to the material contained in the application, the accompanying declaration, the responses to issues identified, and the Statement of Principles.[1]

Section 183 Bargaining Representatives

  1. The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) and the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) have given notice under s.183 of the FW Act that they want the Agreement to cover them.

  1. In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the AMIEU and the AMWU.

Approval

  1. The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the FW Act, will operate from 12 March 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 23 August 2027.


COMMISSIONER

Annexure A


[1] Fair Work (Statement of Principles on Genuine Agreement) Instrument 2023.

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