austlii:cth/FWCA/2025/3798
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FWCA
2025-11-12
Original judgment source is linked above.
The attached document replaces the document previously issued with the above code on 12 November 2025.
s.185 - Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement
MATER OPERATIONAL EMPLOYEES ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025
Application for approval of the Mater Operational Employees Enterprise Agreement 2025
[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Mater Operational Employees Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement). The Application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). It has been made by Mater Misericordiae Ltd Trading AS Mater (the Applicant). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.
[2] The Applicant 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.
[3] 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.
[4] Noting clause 1.4.3 of the Agreement, I am satisfied that the more beneficial entitlements of the National Employment Standards (NES) in the Act will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.
[5] The United Workers' Union, Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union and Australian Workers' Union (the Unions) 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 Unions.
[6] The Agreement is approved and will operate in accordance with s.54 of the Act. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 August 2027.
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