News

Notice of Rule Amendments
FBEU members exempt from leave direction
Union Office Xmas/New Year Shutdown

Inside this issue:

Additional public holidays – Christmas/New Year
Additional public holidays – who gets the leave?
Additional public holidays – overtime
Easter Sunday public holiday and consolidated leave – update
Marine 1 dispute – back pay for members

Inside this issue:

Attendance Management Policy (AMP) interviews
Union medal now on issue
2012 Membership cards and helmet stickers

Union appeals against LSV dispute orders
Urgent nursing home audit
Police to interview all members responding to Quakers Hill
Retiring soon?
SSS and SAS contributions can be salary sacrificed
The rhetoric and realities of the mining boom

Inside this issue:

Retained page pain: don’t get short-changed
Deeming update
Bathurst goes 10/14
Update on alternative duties terminations

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Electricity SOGs training update
HR driving excess sick leave

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O’Farrell attacks Police D&D – firefighters next?
S/O Level 2 promotions update
Retained summit
Anti-Union faxes and flyers on stations
Electricity SOGs Training Audit banned

Inside this issue:

Attendance Management Policy bans lifted
Department prosecutes Union over LSV bans
2011 AGM Results

PRESENTATION OF 2010 – 2011 FINANCIAL REPORT

Please find attached for members’ information the financial report of the FBEU for the year ended 30 June 2011.

All members of the Senior Officers Sub-Branch are advised that a Sub Branch Meeting will be held at 1200 hours on Friday 4 November 2011, as below:

Inside this issue:

LSV dispute victory – but what’s next?
Plans to close Wollongong and Katoomba Comms
Union medal approved, issue imminent
Promotion to S/O Level 2
Retained Training: Phase 1 not to be phased out
Sacking contagion crosses the border
Exercise and mental health
Mental Health event cancelled

Correspondence today between the Union and the Department has resulted in a breakthrough in the current dispute over the LSV Staffing arrangement. The staffing arrangements for the LSVs are to revert to the position agreed between the parties in February 2010 as a part of the settlement of the Waratah dispute.