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TAURANGA LOCAL VICE PRESIDENT

By the closing date for nominations for the position of Tauranga Local Vice President, the following nominations have been received.

FENZ has taken action to address the serious risk of CO exposure on the Nelson fire grounds.

The NZPFU has informed FENZ that monitoring for Carbon Monoxide (CO) levels and individual testing for firefighters are required in Nelson after three incidents of volunteer firefighters experiencing dizziness, nausea and vomiting.

Members are advised that an interim national deployment policy has been agreed to. This has been based on the Christchurch negotiated policy.

Well work has well and truly started to ramp up here! There’s a few things I would like to cover off on this blog. 

We have been advised by NHQ who have been advised by BNZ that there may be an issue in the pay run tonight.

The five Auckland NZPFU Representatives on the Auckland Working Group are currently visiting stations in Areas 3, 4 and 5 (including Comms and R1TC) to inform members of an upcoming electronic survey due for release in a few weeks.

Members attention is brought to the notice below from FENZ payroll whereby the texting of pay information to members will cease from early February. Members will still be able to access their pay information via Home Base.

Today FENZ notified the NZPFU that the first holiday remediation payments to rostered employees that were scheduled to commence on 13 February 2019 have been delayed a month.

The NZPFU was notified by members that as Regional Trainers they were being required to attend a Professional Development Live Fire Burn course (PTDP01812) that would include Rural participants, including some that may not be qualified BA wearers.

The Auckland Working Group has advised the Local Committee that there will soon be a survey going out to all of those in the Auckland area covered by the CEA.

NZPFU members have reported that for some firefighters the newly issued wildfire jackets are ill-fitting with short sleeves that do not fully cover the arm.