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Sitrep 52: Log Of Claims (2024) And Award Implementation (2023)

October 20, 2023

2024 Award Log of Claims and 2023 Award implementation As per Sitrep 51 advising of the making of the 2023 Awards, we are right back to the negotiating table with a new draft Log of Claims for the 2024 […]

Sitrep 46 / 2023: Fbeu Members Endorse Awards

September 7, 2023

FBEU members overwhelmingly endorse new Awards Yesterday concluded our SGMs for endorsement of the proposed 2023 Permanent, Retained and D&D Awards. We should all be proud of the turnout and response shown at these SGMs. Putting aside the ultimate vote […]

Updated Sgm Notice And Agenda

August 25, 2023

Notice of SGMs – full list of SGM dates, times and locations The full schedule for the SGMs to vote on the proposed Awards, including Retained and Country Sub-Branch SGMs, is as follows. Any member can attend any SGM. Members […]

Notice Of Special General Meetings

August 24, 2023

Special General Meetings to vote on new Awards Following the announcement of reaching in principle agreement with FRNSW on new Awards for Permanent and Retained firefighters and the D&D Award (and the release of those documents this week) we will […]

Sitrep 45: Updated Meeting Time/date For C Platoon

August 23, 2023

C Platoon Award Delegates Zoom Rescheduled Apologies to impacted members, however the Delegates Zoom Info meeting for C Platoon that was scheduled for Monday 28th August has been rescheduled. The C Platoon Delegates Zoom will now be on Saturday 26th […]

Sitrep 42: Award Update – Final Award Draft And Zoom Info Sessions

August 21, 2023

AWARD UPDATE – FINAL AWARD DRAFT and ZOOM INFO SESSIONS Further to Friday’s Sitrep we are today working with FRNSW to make some final edits to the Award Drafts prior to sending them out to you all. As such, today’s […]

Sitrep 41: Award Update – In-principle Agreement Reached

August 18, 2023

FBEU reaches In-Principle Agreement on Awards I am pleased to advise members that this afternoon, we have reached in-principle agreement with FRNSW over all three Awards. These Awards will deliver significant reform, despite only being 12-month Awards expiring in February 2024, and […]

Sitrep 38: Updates On Award Negotiations And Covid Vaccination Policy

August 4, 2023

Award Negotiations Update Award negotiations are continuing to progress closer to final resolution. This week we returned to the IRC for further conciliation regarding health checks. This was becoming a real sticking point for resolution of the Awards. Members obviously […]

Sitrep 34/2023

July 7, 2023

Award Update Award negotiations have progressed between us and FRNSW this week. We were able to meet on both Monday and Tuesday and we continue to move forward with discussions on our Log of Claims, in particular key items around […]