ORORA BEVERAGE CANS REVESBY ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Application for approval of the Orora Beverage Cans Revesby Enterprise Agreement 2025

[1] Orora Packaging Australia Pty Ltd (the Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Orora Beverage Cans Revesby Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Agreement will apply to employees who are covered by the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 (the Award).

[3] The Agreement does not contain a flexibility term that meets the requirements of s.203 of the Act. Pursuant to s.202(4) of the Act, the model flexibility term prescribed by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 is taken to be a term of the Agreement. A copy of the model flexibility term can be found in Appendix J of the Agreement.

[4] The Commission raised a concern with the Employer that apprentices, cadets, trainees and juniors may not be better off overall under the Agreement as clause 6 provides that they will be paid the same rates as the Award. The Employer submitted that the relevant employees will be entitled to additional benefits under clauses 25.1 and 33 of the Agreement and provided an undertaking that the relevant employees will be entitled to an additional amount representing 1% of the applicable minimum rate of pay.

[5] The Employer provided written undertakings to address the above BOOT issue. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Appendix I. 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. The undertakings are 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 and 190 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[7] 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 the Agreement to cover it.

[8] In accordance with s.201(2), I note that the Agreement covers the AMWU.

[9] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 18 September 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 31 July 2028.

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