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Sitrep 46/2025

December 19, 2025

AWARD UPDATE – FINAL PERMANENT AND RETAINED AWARD DECISION HANDED DOWN As previously indicated, the IRC today handed down its final decision in relation to the Permanent and Retained Awards. Disappointingly, they ultimately agreed with the positions put by the […]

Sitrep 45/2025

December 18, 2025

AWARD UPDATE – DECISION TO BE HANDED DOWN TOMORROW – THE DEPARTMENT SEEKS TO DOWNGRADE RESCUE CAPABILITY This week marks the conclusion of hearings before the IRC on the 2024 Permanent and Retained Awards, with the final outstanding issues addressed […]

Code Red – Station Design Guidelines Meeting Ban

December 16, 2025

CODE RED – Station Design Guidelines Meeting Ban Members may be aware that the Department and the FBEU have been consulting on standard design guidelines which would be applied to all new station builds, reducing consultation time and delivering high […]

Sitrep 44/2025

December 12, 2025

AWARD UPDATE As you may recall from our last SitRep on the 2024 Awards, there are only three clauses between the Permanent and Retained Award left to be determined by the IRC. We now have a date for that hearing, […]

Sitrep 43/2025

December 8, 2025

SINGLE DAY LSL – UPDATE Following our urgent dispute notification to the IRC on Friday afternoon, the Department has now formally confirmed that SAM will be reverted to its pre-18 November configuration tomorrow morning. This means that members will be […]

Sitrep 42/2025

December 5, 2025

INDUSTRIAL FIRE NORTH ST MARYS – SAFETY UPDATES This week, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) announced that they have launched an investigation into Saturday’s 20th alarm industrial fire at North St Marys, an incident involving 200+ members. It is understood that the […]

Sitrep 41/2025

November 28, 2025

COVER OUR FIRIES – MESSAGE FROM THE NSW PREMIER The ‘Cover Our Firies’ campaign has been a significant moment for the FBEU. The expansion of NSW Presumptive Cancer Legislation will have a generational impact on NSW firefighters and their families. […]

Code Red Lifted – Relieving Station Officers Being Assigned To Zone Offices

November 24, 2025

Published 26 September 2025 CODE RED LIFTED – Attendance Management Policy This notice is to rescind the existing Code Red for Relieving Station Officers being assigned to Zone Offices. The Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) has issued a decision that vindicates […]

Sitrep 40/2025

November 21, 2025

WE HAVE BEEN HEARD – PRESUMPTIVE CANCER BILL PASSED FBEU members have had a significant win today with our Presumptive Cancer Bill passing through the Legislative Assembly with the full support of NSW Parliament. The Bill adds an additional 10 […]