Sara Lee Holdings Pty Ltd

Case

[2025] FWCA 2583

6 AUGUST 2025


[2025] FWCA 2583

FAIR WORK COMMISSION

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185—Enterprise agreement

Sara Lee Holdings Pty Ltd

(AG2025/2367)

SARA LEE HOLDINGS PTY LTD PLANT ENGINEERING ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Manufacturing and associated industries

COMMISSIONER SLOAN

SYDNEY, 6 AUGUST 2025

Application for approval of the Sara Lee Holdings Pty Ltd Plant Engineering Enterprise Agreement 2025

  1. Sara Lee Holdings Pty Ltd has applied for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Sara Lee Holdings Pty Ltd Plant Engineering Enterprise Agreement 2025 (“Agreement”). The application is made under section 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (“Act”). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

  2. Sara Lee has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. I am satisfied that the undertakings are not likely to cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement or to result in substantial changes to the Agreement. The Commission sought the views of the “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union”, known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (“AMWU”), which was a bargaining representative for the Agreement, in respect of the undertakings.

  3. Pursuant to section 190(3) of the Act, I accept the undertakings. They are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

  4. Having regard to the undertakings and the material in the application and accompanying declaration, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of sections 186, 187, 188 and 190 of the Act as are relevant to the application have been met.

  5. The AMWU supports the approval of the Agreement. It has given notice under section 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. As required by section 201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU.

  6. The Agreement is approved. In accordance with section 54 of the Act, the Agreement will operate from 13 August 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 May 2027.

COMMISSIONER

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