Application for approval of the Getinge Queensland Service Employees Union Collective Enterprise Agreement 2025-2027

[1] Getinge Australia Pty Ltd has applied for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Getinge Queensland Service Employees Union Collective Enterprise Agreement 2025-2027 under s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).

[2] The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[3] The Employer has provided written undertakings. I am satisfied that the undertakings will not cause financial detriment to any employee covered by the Agreement and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, I am satisfied that each requirement of ss186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met. The undertakings are taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[5] The Agreement includes a workplace delegates' rights term by incorporating clause 26A of the Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award 2020 in clause 3.1 of the Agreement.

[6] The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (ETU) lodged a Form F18 statutory declaration giving notice under s 183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it. In accordance with s 201(2) of the Act, I note the Agreement covers the ETU.

[7] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s 54 of the Act, will operate from 25 February 2026.

[8] In accordance with clause 4.1, the nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 September 2027.

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