News

QFR SOU Sustainability Paper 2020

A Fire and Rescue Senior Officer sustainability paper has been produced that initially focuses on annual leave and long service leave arrangements that includes numbers of additional Fire and Rescue Senior Officers to cover our annual leave and long service leave types. To view this paper, see Links.

Updated Strategy Paper

The SOU Executive have updated the QFR SOU Strategy paper to reflect our current strategic challenges along with our role in QFES in providing a high level service to the Queensland community. To view this updated paper, click on the link on the Home page.

SOU Elections 2020

As per the SOU rules (4.2), all positions (Executive and Branch Councillors) will be called for nominations and elections in September 2020 to take effect from 1 February 2021. Further information will be provided by the SOU and you will receive correspondence from the Qld Electoral Commission (QEC) regarding nominations

Agency Consultative Committee Meetings

As per the Certified Agreement 2019, the Agency Consultative Committee meetings have commenced between the SOU and QFES. Minutes of these meetings will be posted in the “Members Only’ area. Please login to view the minutes. If you have matters that you wish raised, please contact your respective Branch Councillor

Updated Certified Agreement 2019

As a result of the State wage freeze, the Certified Agreement 2019 has been updated to reflect the new wages and salaries implementation dates. The updated CA19 (6th August 2020) is available under ‘awards’.

Union Shopper

SOU members are reminded that the SOU is a financial member of the Union Shopper. The Union Shopper provides eligible union members with best possible savings through its collective buying power. The Union shopper has been helping affiliated union members to source great deals on an ever increasing range of