In today’s hearing in the Industrial Relations Commission, the Union and Department reached agreement that there will be no deductions from members’ leave records for any errors that occurred prior to 1 January 2003. Members who have been advised that they had lost leave due to an error in 2002 or earlier will therefore have any leave that was deducted in the recent leave audit automatically re-credited. Of course, members should check their leave records to ensure that this does in fact occur. [Read more]

The Union has today written to the Department setting out its position regarding the current Leave Audit, which the Department claims has resulted in permanent firefighters being credited with an additional 39,129 hours of leave and debited 46,421 hours from their existing leave balances. [Read more]