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Sitrep 34/2025

October 10, 2025

INDUSTRIAL MANSLAUGHTER PROSECUTIONS Last year, after years of campaigning from the NSW Union movement, the NSW Government fulfilled its commitment to legislate industrial manslaughter. The change gives prosecutors the ability to hold an individual or business responsible for the death […]

Sitrep 33/2025

October 4, 2025

HEALTH SCREENING TRANSITION UPDATE The inclusion of comprehensive Cancer Screening and PFAS Blood Testing represented a significant win for FBEU members during the 2023 Award negotiations. The FBEU has been in consultation with FRNSW on the implementation of these programs […]

Sitrep 32/2025

October 1, 2025

ALTERNATIVE DUTIES Recently the Department rolled out a blanket policy that permanent firefighters in metro operations on alternative duties, for whatever reason, would only be offered work on the back-to-back roster at a zone office. After a dispute in the […]

Code Red – Duty Wear Shorts

September 30, 2025

Published 26 September 2025 CODE RED – Duty Wear Shorts With warmer weather well and truly upon us, and in the interest of health and safety, the FBEU is once again taking action where the Department will not, this time […]

Code Red Lifted – Attendance Management Policy

September 30, 2025

Published 26 September 2025 CODE RED LIFTED – Attendance Management Policy This notice is to rescind the existing Code Red for the Attendance Management Policy dated 20 February 2024. From today, the following process will instead be in place. Following […]

2025 Agm Notice

September 26, 2025

Notice of 2025 AGM The first of the 2025 AGMs will be held on 28 October at 1000 hours, and the closing meeting will be held on 8 November at 1200 hours. A reminder for all Country and Retained Sub-Branch […]

Sitrep 31/2025

September 19, 2025

PRESUMPTIVE CANCER BILL PASSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Yesterday in the Legislative Council (Upper House), the Opposition and Crossbench suspended standing orders to bring on a vote of the presumptive cancer legislation that was debated last week. It passed the […]

Sitrep 30/2025

September 12, 2025

PRESUMPTIVE CANCER BILL DEBATED As covered in Sitrep 25/2025, the NSW Opposition recently tabled a bill in the NSW Parliament in support of expanding the existing list of occupational firefighter cancers covered by NSW presumptive cancer legislation. Members can find […]

Code Red – Media Room

September 8, 2025

CODE RED – Media Room Several months ago, the Department “found” $265,374.86 left over in its properties budget and decided, rather than fund improvements to frontline fire stations, to convert operational space in Sydney Communications into a “media room”. This […]