Volunteers added to Vic's CFA board

Four volunteer firefighters have been appointed to Victoria's CFA board, as a Supreme Court agreement over a pay deal comes to an end.

A Country Fire Authority firefighter

Four Victorian volunteer firefighters have been added to the CFA's new board. (AAP)

Four Victorian volunteer firefighters have been added to the CFA's new board.

Their appointment comes on the last day of a Supreme Court agreement that the CFA's controversial pay deal not be put to employees until July 20.

Timothy Young, Lynda Hamilton, Peter Shaw and Hazel Clothier were nominated by the Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria (VFBV) and appointed to the board on Tuesday.

They are all in leadership positions within their local brigades.

The CFA board was spectacularly dumped in June because they repeatedly refused to back the new pay agreement over concerns it handed too much power to the United Firefighters Union.

The board was sacked on the same day emergency services minister Jane Garrett resigned and VFBV successfully sought an injunction in the Supreme Court delaying the deal from going to a vote.

The dispute also saw CFA chief executive Lucinda Nolan and chief fire officer Joe Buffone leave their posts.

Earlier this month, the matter between the CFA and VFBV returned to court, where CFA management agreed to delay a pay deal vote until July 20.

The CFA has agreed to provide the VFBV three days' notice of any request for a vote.


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