An Overview of the Key Points of Impasse
Three Items at Impasse:
Article 21: Pay
Article 22: Workweek & Overtime
Article 26: Pension Benefits
Article 21 - Pay
- The step spread between steps for all Pay Grades will be 5%
- Add 2 - Firefighter Pay Grades - Based on Certifications and Assignment
- Add 3 - Driver Engineer Pay Grades - Based on Certifications and Assignment
- Add 3 - Fire Lieutenant Pay Grades - Based on Certifications and Assignment
- Add 2 - Longevity Steps added to all Pay Grades
- Acting in Higher Classification
- Certification and Assignment Pay
- All compensation shall be pensionable
Article 22 - Work Week and Overtime
- Employees working a 24 hour shift beginning and ending time
- Add Rescue Lieutenant's shift beginning and ending time
- Eliminate language that allows for changes to the work schedule
- Overtime pay for all hours worked in excess of the Normal duty schedule
- Limit mandatory training hours to 40 hours per employee per fiscal year
- Annual leave, Union business leave and any other authorized & pre-scheduled leave-
shall be considered as time worked for the computation of overtime
- Scheduled annual leave cannot be canceled except when an emergency is declared and those on annual leave and outside of- Pinellas County will not be recalled. City will reimburse out-of-pocket costs for canceled annual leave
Article - 26 Pension
- Increase members contributions from 7% --- to --- 8% of base pay
- 2% COLA beginning at age 60 (see GRS studies)
- Change the definition of Compensation from base pay to base pay plus the total of pay codes. (see GRS studies)
