Square Ceilings Pty Ltd

[2025] FWCA 960

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[2025] FWCA 960

DECISION

Fair Work Act 2009

s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement

Square Ceilings Pty Ltd

(AG2025/438)

SQUARE CEILINGS PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Building, metal and civil construction industries

COMMISSIONER PLATT ADELAIDE, 21 MARCH 2025

Application for approval of the Square Ceilings Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025

[1]        An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the

Square Ceilings Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Square Ceilings Pty Ltd (the Applicant). The agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2]        The matter was allocated to my Chambers on 3 March 2025.

[3]        On 5 March 2025, I conducted a telephone conference with the parties to seek

clarification about aspects of the Agreement and invited the Applicant to address these matters
including through the provision of an undertaking.

[4]        The Applicant submitted an undertaking in the required form dated 17 March 2025. The

undertaking deals with the following:

• Despite Appendix A, the minimum rates of pay are increased by $1.00.

[5]        A copy of the undertaking has been provided to the bargaining representatives and I

have sought their views in accordance with s.190(4) of the Act. The bargaining representatives
did not express any view on the undertaking.

[6]        The undertaking appears to meet the requirements of s.190(3) of the Act and I have

accepted it. As a result, the undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[7]        I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 190 of the Act as are

relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[8]        The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from

7 days after the date of approval of the Agreement. The nominal expiry date is 27 March 2029.

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[2025] FWCA 960

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