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Firefighters press to change callback, overtime and sick-pay rules; city to clarify policy and calculations
Summary
Union negotiators proposed changes to callback pay, minimum guarantees, sick-leave treatment and the overtime threshold for shift firefighters (proposing a 48-hour threshold). City staff agreed to clarify definitions, calculate cost impacts, and work with the union on policy language.
Union negotiators asked the city to revise rules that determine callback minimums, how sick leave affects overtime calculations, and the overtime threshold used to compute shift pay.
What was proposed: the association asked that employees called back to work receive a four-hour minimum pay and that multiple callbacks within a single window count as a continuation of the initial callback rather than separate guaranteed minima. The union also asked that when a firefighter calls in sick but then works an extra shift in that pay period, the sick day be returned to the…
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