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Level 4 Restrictions remain  Last week, the Industrial Relations Commission released its decision on the 2021 Awards. Disappointingly but unsurprisingly, the Full Bench upheld the Government’s legislated wage increase of 0.3% over our claim of 2.5% based on FRNSW’s funding […]

Level 4 Restrictions remain Covid update  FRNSW this afternoon emailed all staff on updated COVID testing and travel permit requirements. The fast moving and ever-changing Health advice is problematic for everyone, but I urge all members to adhere to the advice given. […]

2021 FBEU Election Vacancies for State Secretary and President Positions Election Notice and Nomination Forms The NSW Electoral Commission is conducting the election for the Vacant positions of State Secretary and President on the FBEU State Committee of Management. You […]

2021 FBEU Election Timetable for Vacant State Secretary and President Positions We now have a timetable from the NSW Electoral Commission for the 2021 election vacancies for the positions of State Secretary and President. The timetable for these positions is […]

Contactless Changeover implementation – Level 4 Restrictions remain.  You should all now be familiar with the Contactless Changeover procedures drafted by the COVID IMT with input from the FBEU and as released in SITREP 45/2021.  These procedures were designed to minimize […]

Statewide COVID Level 4 pandemic restrictions from 0800 tomorrow Dear Members It has become abundantly clear that the NSW Government has utterly failed to contain the spread of COVID, which is evident in the upgraded restrictions put in place today, […]

COVID Update  By now you should have all seen the contactless changeover and relieving guidelines which were posted in SITREP last night and can be found on the FBEU website here. This is the document unchanged, as written by the […]

URGENT NOTICE – New COVID procedures The link below contains new procedures, which have been worked on and agreed to by your Union and FRNSW. https://fbeu.net/wp-content/uploads/Contactless-Changeovers.pdf These processes are to minimize how many people you are in contact with whilst […]

COVID Update   It has been a busy week with COVID for your union. The FBEU continues to work as part of the COVID IMT to help deal with a rapidly evolving and complex situation. Our priority is to keep members […]

COVID update  As most members would be aware Newcastle and the lower Hunter were added to the Greater Sydney Region lockdown area. The current restrictions for Members working in these areas can be found here.  https://fbeu.net/2021/08/06/6-august-covid-update/  All other areas are […]

UPGRADED FRNSW RESPONSE – GREATER SYDNEY, NEWCASTLE AND HUNTER REGIONS FRNSW COVID restrictions level 3, plus: No visitors allowed at any stations/work locations. Only on-duty/on-call personnel, essential staff and existing contractors are permitted entry. All non-emergency related, face-to-face external community […]

RETAINED PAGER UPDATE In SitRep 28/2021, we outlined several concerns with the new pager system proposed by FRNSW for Retained staff. Since then, seven stations have been trialling the pagers and giving us their feedback. We have had two meetings […]