Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd
[2025] FWCA 1970
•13 JUNE 2025
| [2025] FWCA 1970 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement
Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd
(AG2025/1628)
SONOCO AUSTRALIA WORKPLACE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT 2025 - INGLEBURN PLANT
| Manufacturing and associated industries | |
| DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE | SYDNEY, 13 JUNE 2025 |
Application for approval of the Sonoco Australia Workplace Improvement Agreement 2025-Ingleburn Plant
An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Sonoco Australia Workplace Improvement Agreement 2025-Ingleburn Plant (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Sonoco Australia Pty Ltd (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
Undertakings
The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 6 June 2025. Those undertakings are attached at Annexure A to this decision and become terms of the Agreement. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement (as compared to the relevant provisions of the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.
Coverage of employee organisation(s)
The “Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union” known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants to be covered by the Agreement. In accordance with s.201(2) of the Act, I note that the Agreement covers this organisation.
Workplace delegates’ rights clause
Pursuant to s.205A(2) of the Act, the workplace delegates’ rights term prescribed by the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.
Conclusion
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188, 190, 193 and 193A of the Act, as are relevant to this application for approval, have been met.
I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.
The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 20 June 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 13 June 2029.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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