Voting on Victoria’s controversial CFA pay deal will not happen until a Supreme Court trial is over.

The agreement is subject to an urgent hearing, listed to start on September 22, and the CFA says it will not put the deal to firefighters for a vote until the trial wraps up.

CFA chief executive Frances Diver said it was disappointing, but the authority would comply with the delay.

“It has been a long and difficult negotiation,” Ms Diver told reporters.

“We think that it's in the interests of the organisation to move on and do what we do best, which is working together in the community to prevent and suppress fires.”

The vote would have happened this week after the CFA endorsed the union pay deal last Friday, but Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria had the United Firefighters Union enterprise bargaining agreement suspended.

The suspension was successful because the volunteers’ group believed its clauses were contrary to the CFA Act provisions relating volunteers.

VFBV chief executive Andrew Ford said there had been a lot of community support.

ABC reporters have gone back over the main points of the long-running industrial dispute.

This article for The Conversation goes into much more detail.