QLD2032
QLD2032 AGREEMENT EXPIRY

Construction Agreement Expiry

Every enterprise agreement in the building, metal and civil construction industry approved by the Fair Work Commission during 2024–25, counted by nominal expiry date. More than half fall on two days in the same week of July 2027 — five years before the Games and inside the delivery decade. Counts only; no employer is named on this page.

25,974
APPROVED, NATIONALLY, ALL YEARS
2,616
APPROVED IN 2024–25 WINDOW
1,392
EXPIRING 2 OR 4 JUL 2027 (53.2%)
1,180
DISTINCT EMPLOYERS IN THAT WEEK
Source: Fair Work Commission document register (fwc.gov.au) · industry facet Building, metal and civil construction industries, status Approved · snapshot compiled 11 Aug 2026, not yet on a refresh schedule · Corrections within 24h

Nominal expiry, by year

agreements approved 2024–25 · nothing in this cohort runs past 2030
YearAgreements
2024 129
2025 91
2026 212
2027 1,526
2028 404
2029 213
2030 33
A further 7 agreements in this cohort carry a nominal expiry earlier than 2024, before the date they were approved. Shown as the register records them; excluded from the chart above.

The twelve most common expiry dates

next largest date after the two in July 2027
Nominal expiryAgreements
2 Jul 2027 1,160
4 Jul 2027 232
30 Jun 2026 58
9 May 2028 48
1 Nov 2026 36
29 Feb 2024 36
30 Jun 2028 29
30 Jun 2025 29
30 Jun 2027 25
28 Feb 2029 24
1 Jan 2026 24
30 Apr 2024 24

Approved agreements by industry

national totals, all years, status Approved · the trades that build
IndustryApproved
Building, metal and civil construction 25,974
Electrical contracting 5,278
Plumbing 4,229
Cement and concrete products 955

What a nominal expiry date is

An enterprise agreement does not stop operating on its nominal expiry date. Its terms continue until it is replaced, terminated or varied. What the date marks is the point from which the agreement becomes open to replacement, and from which protected industrial action may lawfully be taken in support of a new one.

So 1,392 agreements sharing two dates is not 1,392 agreements ending. It is 1,180 employers becoming simultaneously renegotiable in the same week.

Method, and what this does not show

Compiled from the Fair Work Commission's public document register, filtered to the Building, metal and civil construction industries facet with status Approved, lodgement window 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2025. The register renders 4,308 result rows for that filter; those collapse to 2,616 distinct agreement codes, because each agreement is rendered more than once. The figures here are the deduplicated counts.

This is a national register. It carries no state or locality field for agreements, so no Queensland subset is asserted on this page. It records employers and agreements, not employee numbers. And it covers only firms that hold a registered enterprise agreement, which is a subset of the industry rather than all of it.

This is a dated snapshot, not a live feed. It will be stated as refreshed only once it is running on a schedule.