Application for approval of the Wire Industries Pty Ltd and Australian Workers Union NSW Enterprise Agreement 2025

[1] Wire Industries Pty Limited (the Employer) has made an application for approval of an enterprise agreement known as the Wire Industries Pty Ltd and Australian Workers Union NSW Enterprise Agreement 2025 (the Agreement) pursuant to s.185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the Act). The Agreement is a single enterprise agreement.

Notice of Employee Representational Rights (NERR)

[2] The NERR states that the Employer "is bargaining in relation to a single-enterprise agreement (Wire Industries NSW Enterprise Agreement 2025)", while the title of the Agreement is provided as "Wire Industries Pty Ltd and Australian Workers Union NSW Enterprise Agreement 2025."

[3] I am satisfied having regard to the material before the Commission and the decision of the Full Bench in Huntsman Chemical Company Australia Pty Limited T/A RMAX Rigid Cellular Plastics & Others,[1] that this matter constituted a minor technical or procedural error for the purposes of s.188(5) of the Act, and that the employees covered by the Agreement were not likely to have been disadvantaged by the error.

[4] Having had regard to the Statement of Principles on Genuine Agreement, I am satisfied that each of the requirements of ss.186, 187 and 188 as are relevant to this application for approval have been met.

[5] The Australian Workers' Union (AWU), being a bargaining representative for the Agreement, has given notice under s.183 of the Act that it wants the Agreement to cover it.

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

[7] The Agreement is approved and, in accordance with s.54 of the Act, will operate from 14 November 2025. The nominal expiry date of the Agreement is 14 November 2028.

[1] [2019] FWCFB 318.

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