PARK ENGINEERS PTY LTD ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Application for approval of the Park Engineers Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025

[1] Park Engineers Pty Ltd As Trustee For The D'Amato Business Trust (the Applicant) has made an application for the approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Park Engineers Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement). The application was made under s 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The Applicant has provided written undertakings. A copy of the undertakings is attached in Annexure A. 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] In compliance with s 190(4) of the Act, the bargaining representatives' views regarding the undertakings proffered were sought. They were provided with the opportunity to raise and address any objections they had to the undertakings proffered by the Applicant. No objection was raised.

[4] Subject to the undertakings referred to above, and on the basis of the material contained in the application and accompanying declarations, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss 186, 187, 188, and 190 of the Act as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[5] I note that the following clauses in the Agreement appear to be inconsistent with the National Employment Standards (the NES):

• (a) Clause 16 of the Agreement, which provides how annual leave accrues in the Agreement, is inconsistent with s 87(2) of the Act where annual leave accrues progressively.

• (b) Clause 17 of the Agreement, which provides how personal leave accrues in the Agreement, is inconsistent with the s 96 (2) of the Act where personal leave accrues progressively.

• (c) Clause 20 of the Agreement contains an exhaustive list of public holidays that employees are entitled to but does not provide an entitlement to any other day or part-day declared or prescribed to be observed within a State or Territory, as provided by s 115(1)(b) of the Act.

• (d) Clause 18 provides for compassionate leave where a member of the Employee's immediate family or household dies or suffers a life-threatening illness or injury. However, it does not provide for compassionate leave where a child is stillborn or the employees spouse or de facto partner has a miscarriage per s 104 of the Act.

[6] However, I am satisfied that under clause 4.3 of the Agreement, the more beneficial entitlements of the NES will prevail where there is an inconsistency between the Agreement and the NES.

[7] The Agreement does not contain a delegates' rights term, as required by s 205A(1) of the Act. Under s 205A(2), the workplace delegates' rights term in Clause 40A of the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[8] The Agreement was approved on 6 October 2025 and, in accordance with s 54, will operate from 13 October 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 6 October 2029.

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