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All non-aligned regular members of the Fire Department, excluding the Fire Chief, shall be paid, in addition to their regular compensation, for the performance of overtime duties, as provided for in Section 179.07.
(a) When any member is assigned to the Fire Prevention Bureau and working 40 hours per week, compensation for overtime shall be calculated by multiplying his or her normal hourly rate of pay by 1.5 for the number of hours worked in the performance of such duties in excess of 40 hours for each calendar week.
(b) When a non-aligned regular fireman not on duty is called in for duty at a fire, he or she shall be compensated at his or her overtime rate for all hours worked on such call, but he or she shall not receive overtime pay for fewer than two hours for the call-in.
(Ord. 1997-20. Passed 6-23-97; Ord. 2000-16. Passed 4-10-00; Ord. 2000-53. Passed 11-27-00; Ord. 2006-10. Passed 3-30-06.)
(a) Volunteer firemen shall be obligated to respond to all emergency alarms whenever physically possible and perform such duties as directed by their superior officers not inconsistent with the responsibilities of the Department of Fire. Volunteer firemen shall attend such scheduled drills and meetings as established by the Fire Chief. Failure to attend eighty percent of such drills during any fiscal year shall be grounds for removal and dismissal from the rolls of volunteer firemen.
(Ord. 1956-70. Passed 9-24-56.)
(b) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Division (b) of this section was repealed by Ordinance 1994-20, passed April 25, 1994.)
(a) Each non-aligned regular full-time member of the Fire Department shall be entitled to a uniform allowance of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) yearly, payable in equal amounts of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) on the pay closest to February 1 and August 1 of each year.
(Ord. 1997-20. Passed 6-23-97; Ord. 2000-16. Passed 4-10-00; Ord. 2000-53. Passed 11-27-00; Ord. 2006-10. Passed 3-30-06; Ord. 2013-7. Passed 2-25-13.)
(b) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Division (b) of this section was repealed by Ordinance 1994-20, passed April 25, 1994.)
The Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chief and members assigned to the Fire Prevention Bureau shall serve forty hours per week as directed by the Mayor. The other regular members of the Fire Department shall serve on regular duty as directed by the Mayor for an average of forty-eight hours per week.
(Ord. 1991-28. Passed 8-12-91; Ord. 2013-7. Passed 2-25-13.)
(a) Insurance-Medical. Each non-aligned regular and civilian employee of the Fire Department shall, after one month of such full-time service, be entitled to health insurance provided by the City. Health benefit plan design, coverage options and employee cost of participation shall be determined annually and such conditions to be outlined in a Health Benefit Summary document to be provided to employee at the inception of each benefit year.
(b) Insurance-Group Life. Each non-aligned full-time regular and civilian employee shall, after one year of such full-time service, be entitled to fully paid group life insurance in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
(c) Vacations. Each nonaligned regular and civilian full-time member of the Fire Department shall be entitled to the following annual vacation benefits, based on the length of continuous employment: two weeks of vacation with pay at the end of one year of full-time active duty; three weeks of vacation with pay at the end of five years of full-time active duty; four weeks of vacation with pay at the end of ten years of full-time active duty; five weeks of vacation with pay at the end of seventeen years of full-time active and six weeks of vacation with pay after twenty-four years full-time active duty. Vacation shall be earned as of January 1 of each year and shall be taken by the employee in the calendar year in which it is earned, provided, however, that when an employee has an anniversary of employment in a calendar year which would entitle the employee to receive an additional increment of vacation, the employee shall be entitled to observe the additional increment of vacation in the twelve-month period measured from the anniversary. Vacation shall not be accrued from year to year or payment made in lieu thereof, except by special arrangement with the Director of Public Service, provided, however, that any full-time member of the Fire Department who has concluded twenty-one continuous years of service, may, at his or her option, bank not more than three weeks per year, up to a maximum of nine weeks. Such employee may receive cash payment for such banked vacation one time, either at retirement or before, but may not thereafter bank additional hours after the nine weeks have been utilized. In lieu of banking vacation time, an employee may turn-in for annual payment not more than three weeks per year, up to a maximum amount of nine weeks. The Finance Department must be notified of this intent not later than November 1 of the calendar year in which payment is requested. Said payment shall be made on the last pay of the calendar year in which payment is requested.
Vacation or payment in lieu of accrued vacation shall be granted to an employee after his or her retirement or termination of employment, unless such termination of employment is made for cause, in which event no such vacation or payment in lieu thereof shall be allowed.
Payment in lieu of vacation shall be calculated at the employee's normal rate of pay.
(d) Holidays. Each nonaligned regular and civilian full-time employee of the Fire Department shall be entitled to twelve paid holidays. The City, in response to certain reductions in the workweek hours for the City firefighters, does hereby agree to grant each non-aligned regular and civilian employee of the Fire Department one additional holiday for the year 2000. Commencing January 1, 2001, each non-aligned regular and civilian full-time employee of the Fire Department shall be entitled to fifteen paid holidays.
(e) Longevity Pay. Additional compensation for continuous, full-time employment, which shall be entitled "longevity pay", shall be paid for each calendar year at the first pay period in December of that calendar year. The rate of longevity pay to which an employee shall be entitled in any calendar year shall be computed in accordance with the following schedule:
Years of Continuous, Full-Time Employment Completed as of the Anniversary Date of Employment | Rate of Longevity Pay Per Month |
0 - 4 | $ -0- |
5 | 20.83 |
10 | 41.66 |
15 | 62.50 |
20 | 83.33 |
25 | 104.16 |
30 | 125.00 |
The amount of longevity pay to which an employee is entitled in a calendar year shall be computed by multiplying the number of months in such calendar year preceding and subsequent to his or her anniversary date of employment in that year by the applicable rate or rates of monthly longevity pay based upon the number of full years of continuous, full-time employment completed in that year as determined in accordance with the above schedule.
In each calendar year, the anniversary date of employment shall be the first day of the month in which the employee commenced his or her continuous, full-time employment
with the City. In calculating the length of an employee's continuous employment, full-time service in all departments of the City shall be included.
(f) Jury Duty Compensation. Each non-aligned regular and civilian full-time employee of the Fire Department shall, if called for jury duty, receive their regular compensation during the time spent in the capacity as jurors less the amount paid them by the court for such duty as jurors.
(Ord. 1997-20. Passed 6-23-97; Ord. 2000-16. Passed 4-10-00; Ord. 2000-53. Passed 11-27-00; Ord. 2001-28. Passed 9-10-01; Ord. 2006-10. Passed 3-30-06; Ord. 2013-7. Passed 2-25-13.)
(a) Each non-aligned regular and civilian full-time employee of the Fire Department shall be entitled to 4.6 hours of sick leave for every eighty hours of regularly scheduled employment. Fire Department personnel normally employed on a forty hour per week schedule shall be entitled to accrue sick leave not to exceed 1,750 hours. Employees working thirty-five hours per week shall be entitled to accrue sick leave not to exceed 1,531 hours.
(b) Absences due to service connected injury will not be charged against an employee's accumulated sick leave so long as it does not exceed the employee's attending physician's and/or the Police Surgeon's prognosis as to the employee's ability to return to employment. Once an employee has returned to assume normal duties, following an absence due to a service connected injury, subsequent absences, alleged as being due to a service connected injury, will be charged against the employee's accumulated sick leave, unless excused by the certification of the employee's attending physician's and/or the Police Surgeon. In the case of disagreement between physicians, the certification of a third physician will be required.
(c) An employee may use a portion of his or her accumulated sick leave for funeral arrangements and services for his or her spouse, child, parents, mother-in-law, father-in- law, grandparents, grandparents-in-law, sister, brother, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, grandchildren, step-parent, step-sister, step-brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece and nephew. Funeral leave so utilized shall not be charged so as to reduce the employee's sick leave incentive.
(d) At the time of retirement from active duty with the City or death of the employee, the employee, or the employee's estate, will be paid in cash for sixty percent of the value of his or her accrued, but unused, sick leave credit. Such payment shall be based on the employee's rate of pay at time of retirement or death. Retirement shall be as defined in Police and Fire Pension Fund or Ohio Public Employee Retirement System regulations. Payment for sick leave on this basis shall be considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued by the employee at that time. Such payment shall be made only once to any employee. The maximum payment which may be made shall be sixty percent of 1,200 hours for a forty hour per work week employee and sixty percent of 1,050 hours for a thirty-five hour work week employee. The formula for computation shall be:
(1) In the case of employees working 40 hours per week:
annual rate x (accumulated hours x 60%)
2,080
(2) In the case of employees working 35 hours per week:
annual rate x (accumulated hours x 60%)
1,820
NOTE: Annual rate of pay used in above unused sick time payment calculations is based on the total of the base salary and longevity pay only.
(e) For Fire Department personnel, the following sick leave conservation incentive table shall prevail:
(1) In the case of employees working forty hours per week:
Unused Sick Leave Days | Incentive Payment Hours |
120 | 30 |
112 | 28 |
104 | 26 |
96 | 24 |
88 | 22 |
80 | 20 |
72 | 18 |
64 | 16 |
56 | 14 |
48 | 12 |
40 | 10 |
Less than 40 | -0-
|
(2) In the case of employees working 35 hours per week:
Unused Sick Leave Days | Incentive Payment Hours |
105 | 30 |
98 | 28 |
91 | 26 |
84 | 24 |
77 | 22 |
70 | 20 |
63 | 18 |
56 | 16 |
49 | 14 |
42 | 12 |
35 | 10 |
Less than 35 | -0-
|
(f) For payment purposes, the equivalent hourly rate to be paid will be that hourly rate in effect as of December 31, in the year in which the sick leave days are accumulated. Payment is to be concurrent with the second payroll in February following the year in which sick leave days were accumulated. Such incentive payment will in no way diminish an employee's sick leave accumulation.
(g) The incentive for conservation of annual sick leave shall be prorated and paid for the year in which separation, by death or retirement, of an employee of the Fire Department shall occur.
(Ord. 1997-20. Passed 6-23-97; Ord. 2000-16. Passed 4-10-00; Ord. 2000-53. Passed 11-27-00; Ord. 2006-10. Passed 3-30-06; Ord. 2013-7. Passed 2-25-13.)
The Mayor shall promulgate such rules and regulations from time to time as are necessary to maintain a high degree of efficiency and discipline within the Department of Fire. Existing rules and regulations in force at the present time shall remain in existence until amended or revoked by the Mayor.
(Ord. 1955-83. Passed 10-17-55.)
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