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Sitrep 4/2025

February 14, 2025

AWARD ARBITRATION WEEK 1 CONCLUDES Week 1 of the hearing before the IRC for our Award Arbitration finished up today and it’s fair to say it’s been a busy week for all involved. Over the course of the last 4 […]

Sitrep 3/2025

February 7, 2025

ROUND THE GROUNDS UPDATE The FBEU’s call for reform to the broader NSW emergency services sector continues to remain topically in the media over the past month with yet another tragic fire fatality within rural fire district for the NSW […]

Sitrep 2/2025

January 24, 2025

Public Holidays Members are advised that the Award clauses relating to consolidated leave for Permanents and overtime for Retained require that the public holiday either be Easter Sunday or an “additional public holiday”, in order to access those entitlements. The […]

Sitrep 1/2025

January 21, 2025

AWARD UPDATE – UPDATE With both the FBEU and FRNSW having filed final material for the Award arbitration process, we now reach the final stages of the timetable set by the IRC articulated in SitRep 47/2024. From Tuesday 11 February, those […]

Sitrep 64/2024

December 19, 2024

Directions Hearing – Award Arbitration Today the FBEU were back before the IRC for a further directions hearing, where the Union filed a further application seeking greater detail, data, and relevant statistics from FRNSW in relation to their evidence. Additionally, […]

Sitrep 63/2024

December 11, 2024

NSW PFAS Inquiry Last week the FBEU gave evidence to Select Committee on ‘PFAS Contamination in Waterways and Drinking Water Supplies Throughout NSW’, where the Union was joined by the NSW EPA and FRNSW to discuss the impacts of PFAS […]

Sitrep 62/2024

December 6, 2024

IRC Decision in State Wage Fixing Principles Case As noted in Sitrep 60, the FBEU recently made submission to the Wage Fixing Principles (‘WFP’) case being heard by the new Industrial Court. WFPs are a guide used by the Commission […]

Sitrep 61/2024

November 22, 2024

AWARD ARBITRATION – STATEMENT OF ISSUES Earlier this week the FBEU’s Award Arbitration submissions were published here at Sitrep 60/2024. As previously stated, the submission brings together significant contributions from across the FBEU membership and provides for an important footing […]

Sitrep 60/2024