FENZ’s proposed restructuring
The FENZ’s restructuring plan, announced in November, will cut 97 non-firefighting roles and significantly change 66 others, according to the unions.
FENZ CEO Kerry Gregory said last year that the plan was about ensuring that the agency is “best positioned to deliver a modern and responsive emergency service.”
But the unions accused Gregory of sending an error-riddled restructure document to the unions after close of business on November 11, with some pages initially missing and at least 24 substantive errors identified.
And less than half an hour before the embargo expired the next day, Gregory sent hundreds of additional pages, according to the unions.
“You can’t consult on a near-completed plan full of errors that was prepared in a process from which you completely excluded the very people the law requires you to involve,” Fitzsimons said.