LSH AUTO (SYDNEY) PTY LTD, MERCEDES-BENZ SYDNEY ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025-2028

Application for approval of the LSH Auto (Sydney) Pty Ltd, Mercedes-Benz Sydney Enterprise Agreement 2025-2028

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the LSH Auto (Sydney) Pty Ltd, Mercedes-Benz Sydney Enterprise Agreement 2025-2028 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by LSH Auto (Sydney) Pty Ltd (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Agreement was lodged with the Commission on 25 August 2025. The Fair Work Act 2009 provides that an enterprise agreement must be lodged with the Commission for approval within 14 days of it being made (i.e. approved by relevant employees), or within such time as the Commission allows if it considers it fair to extend the time period for lodgement. Given the Agreement was made on 8 August 2025, it ought to have been lodged by 22 August 2023. The Employer has made submissions that detail the circumstances as to why the Agreement was lodged outside of the 14 day period. In the circumstances of this Application, and having regard to the circumstances outlined by the Employer, I do consider it fair to extend the period in which this Application (for approval of an enterprise agreement) was lodged with the Commission to 25 August 2025.

[3] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 8 September 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 Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[4] 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.

[5] Pursuant to s.205A(2) of the Act, the workplace delegates' rights term prescribed by the Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award 2020 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[6] 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.

[7] I am satisfied the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[8] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 17 September 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 30 June 2028.

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