February 3, 2012
  • Why minimum payments do not equal hours worked
  • SNW Sub-Branch meeting
  • FRNSW thumbs nose at IRC?

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January 6, 2012
  • FBEU rule changes – don’t believe the hype
  • Santa didn’t make it to…
  • AFAs – response to be confirmed?

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December 29, 2011

FBEU Rule amendments update

 As reported in SITREP 49, the State Committee is proposing twenty-three much needed amendments to the FBEU Rules. Many of these amendments are an exercise in updating parts of our Rules, such as increasing the mortality benefit. Read more…


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December 23, 2011
  • Notice of Rule Amendments
  • FBEU members exempt from leave direction
  • Union Office Xmas/New Year Shutdown

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December 2, 2011

Inside this issue:

  • Union appeals against LSV dispute orders
  • Urgent nursing home audit
  • Police to interview all members responding to Quakers Hill
  • Retiring soon?
  • SSS and SAS contributions can be salary sacrificed
  • The rhetoric and realities of the mining boom

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November 25, 2011

Inside this issue:

  • Retained pager pain: don’t get short-changed
  • Deeming update
  • Bathurst goes 10/14
  • Update on alternative duties terminations

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November 18, 2011

Inside this issue:

Electricity SOGs training update

HR driving excess sick leave

 

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November 3, 2011

PRESENTATION OF 2010 – 2011 FINANCIAL REPORT

Please find attached for members’ information the financial report of the FBEU for the year ended 30 June 2011. Read more…


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October 28, 2011

Inside this issue:

  • LSV dispute victory – but what’s next?
  • Plans to close Wollongong and Katoomba Comms
  • Union medal approved, issue imminent
  • Promotion to S/O Level 2
  • Retained Training: Phase 1 not to be phased out
  • Sacking contagion crosses the border
  • Exercise and mental health
  • Mental Health event cancelled

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October 22, 2011

Correspondence today between the Union and the Department has resulted in a breakthrough in the current dispute over the LSV Staffing arrangement. The staffing arrangements for the LSVs are to revert to the position agreed between the parties in February 2010 as a part of the settlement of the Waratah dispute. Read more…


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