Holiday pay, shift differentials and short staffing emerge as operational concerns
Negotiators discussed holiday requests, seniority-based assignments, and shift differentials for nights and weekends as ways to compensate officers who miss family time; they also flagged safety concerns from being short roughly 71 officers.
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Negotiators raised holiday staffing and shift differentials as practical ways to ease retention and fairness pressures for patrol officers who miss family time because of nights and weekends. The union proposed a patrol incentive (a dollar‑per‑hour differential for patrol, larger differentials for nights) while city staff noted operational coverage and seniority rules influence actual cost and staffing impact.
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