News

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On-shift Rescue training to commence
AMP show cause letters
Department’s Retained Stand By confusion
Dad and Partner leave (DAPP) update
Australia Day public holiday – Monday 28 January 2013

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Overtime blow out a sham
Community First Responder

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Pants on fire
Flexible Leave and Annual Leave Conversion trials under review
New “Dad and Partner Pay” (DAPP)

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2013 – new challenges and opportunities
Retiring soon?
SSS and SASS contributions can be salary sacrificed
Tall TOLing tales, but true…

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Station closures and TOLing:
Advice and instructions for permanent members
FIRU roster dispute
Rescue training dispute
Union Office Xmas/New Year Shutdown

The following 13 Point advice and instructions rescind and replace all previous Union advice and instructions on TOLing (including SITREPs 46, 47, and 48 of 2012) and are to be observed until further notice from the State Secretary.

Station closures and TOLing: Clarification of Stand Bys and Move Ups
Union instructions remain in force

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Station closures and TOLing:
Clarification of Stand Bys and Move Ups
More TOLing Q and A
Gallacher: one portfolio, two standards
CL = CLose station
Relieving Officers
Workers comp cuts already biting hard
Secondary or Other Employment Policy
Tuck Shop Baird “loses” another $800 million

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Budget Cuts, TOLing, and the FBEU Response
Temporary station closures and appliances offline (TOLing):
Advice and instructions for permanent members
IRC orders new AMP for permanent members

The O’Farrell Government’s June Budget imposed across-the-board cuts to the public sector wages bill by 1.2%, with Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) being hit with a larger cut amounting to 1.75% – higher even than many clerical agencies.

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TOLing: Govt loads gun, Dept pulls trigger
The first casualty of war?
Workplace drug testing “an ill-informed reaction”
PAT trials are voluntary

Department to proceed with permanent station closures