SEVEN NETWORK (OPERATIONS) LIMITED PRODUCTIONS ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Application for approval of the Seven Network (Operations) Limited Productions Enterprise Agreement 2025

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement to be known as the Seven Network (Operations) Limited Productions Enterprise Agreement 2025 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act). It has been made by Seven Network (Operations) Limited Trading AS Seven (Employer). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] There was an issue raised by the Commission with the Employer regarding compliance with Items [15] and [16] of the statutory Statement of Principles on genuine agreement.[1] Having regard to the submissions of the Employer, I find this issue to be a minor procedural and/or technical error.[2] I am satisfied that the Agreement was genuinely agreed to by relevant employees notwithstanding the error. I am also satisfied that the employees covered by the Agreement are not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error.

[3] The Employer has provided written undertakings dated 11 February 2026. 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 Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020), and that the undertakings will not result in substantial changes to the Agreement.

[4] The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), 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] 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.

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

[7] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 18 February 2026. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 18 February 2029.

[1] Section 188(1) of the Fair Work Act 2009.

[2] See s.188(5) of the Fair Work Act 2009 and the case of Huntsman Chemical Co Australia Pty Ltd T/A RMAX Rigid Cellular Plastics & Others [2019] FWCFB 318.

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