Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Limited Trading AS Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Ltd

[2025] FWCA 2722

[2025] FWCA 2722

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.210—Enterprise agreement

Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Limited Trading AS Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Ltd

(AG2025/1882)

RURAL WORKFORCE AGENCY VICTORIA LIMITED ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

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COMMISSIONER PERICA	MELBOURNE, 14 AUGUST 2025

Application for approval of a variation of an enterprise agreement

1. On 16 June 2025, Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Limited (RWAV) made an application under s 210 to vary the Rural Workforce Agency Victoria Limited Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement). Voting to approve the variation concluded on 4 June 2025. The variation to the Agreement is attached as Annexure A.

1. RWAV seeks to vary the Agreement to extend the nominal expiry date from 30 June 2028 to ‘4 years after the date the Agreement is approved by the Commission’. They submit the expiry date of 30 June 2028 does not reflect the true agreement between RWAV and its employees. This is demonstrated by Schedule 2 – Salary Levels of the Agreement which provides for pay increases “over the next 4 years”.

1. In a witness statement filed on 8 August 2025 by Ms. Susan Rundle, Senior Advisor of People and Culture at RWAV, the error is explained as an “oversight” that was identified by an employee bargaining representative, Ms. Cathy Mitton, on 1 May 2025. 

1. The matter was heard on 11 August 2025. Ms. Rundle attended and gave evidence confirming her statement. Also in attendance was Mr. Harrison Gray of law firm Russell Kennedy, Ms. Lauren Cordwell, Chief Executive Officer of RWAV and Ms. Mitton.

1. On the basis of the material contained in the application, the accompanying declaration from Ms. Cordwell and the matters put to me at the hearing on 11 August 2025, I am satisfied that each of the requirements under ss 211 and 212 as are relevant to this application have been met. I therefore approve the variation and the consolidated version of the Agreement, as varied, is attached to this decision.

1. In accordance with s 216 of the Act, the variation operates from 14 August 2025.

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Annexure A