Stowe Australia Pty Limited
[2024] FWCA 3007
•15 AUGUST 2024
| [2024] FWCA 3007 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
| DECISION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.185—Enterprise agreement
Stowe Australia Pty Limited
(AG2024/2694)
STOWE AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED - NEWCASTLE & CENTRAL COAST ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2024
| Electrical contracting industry | |
| DEPUTY PRESIDENT BOYCE | SYDNEY, 15 AUGUST 2024 |
Application for approval of the Stowe Australia Pty Limited - Newcastle & Central Coast Enterprise Agreement 2024
An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Stowe Australia Pty Limited - Newcastle & Central Coast Enterprise Agreement 2024 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Stowe Australia Pty Limited (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
Undertakings
The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 31 July 2024. 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 Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.
Coverage of employee organisation
The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia, 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.
Conclusion
Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187, 188 and 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 22 August 2024. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 25 October 2025.
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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