WORKING TOGETHER IN PRECISION ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025

Application for approval of the Working Together In Precision Enterprise Agreement 2025.

[1] An application has been made for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Working Together In Precision Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) by Timber Building Systems Pty Ltd (the Applicant). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

[2] The matter was allocated to my Chambers on 18 June 2025.

[3] On 27 June 2025, the Employer was invited to address aspects of the Agreement.

[4] In respect of the alleged Notice of Employee Representational Rights (NERR) deficiency, I do not believe that the insertion of the previous name of the Agreement had the effect of disenfranchising any employee who is covered by the proposed Agreement from participation in the bargaining process. I am satisfied (taking into consideration s.188(5) of the Act and the decision in Huntsman Chemical Company Australia Pty Limited T/A RMAX Rigid Cellular Plastics & Others) that the procedural or technical error is minor and that the employees were not likely to have been disadvantaged, and accordingly, that there has been a genuine agreement.

[5] Pursuant to s.205A(2) of the Act, the workplace delegates' rights term prescribed by the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 at Clause 40A is taken to be a term of the Agreement.

[6] 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] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 7 days after the date of approval of the Agreement. The nominal expiry date is 21 July 2029.

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