2125.83 Unemployment Compensation

   The City shall extend the provisions of the Unemployment Compensation Law to City employees.

2125.84 Wage Rates

   With the understanding between the City and the Union that there shall be full cooperation in effecting reasonable and efficient economies, the wage rates to be paid to the employees in each salary group defined in this Agreement are set forth in the schedule below.

   Effective the first full pay period in January 2003, the rates which became effective in January of 2002 shall remain as follows:

	80 HOUR RATE	96 HOUR RATE	ANNUALLY
Trainee	16.278	13.565	33,858.06
Probationary	17.442	14.535	36,278.44
After 1 year	18.605	15.504	38,698.82
After 2 years	20.930	17.442	43,535.04
After 3 years (full rate)	23.254	19.378	48,368.98
After 5 full years	23.556	19.630	48,996.23
After 10 full years	23.860	19.883	49,628.03
After 15 full years	24.156	20.130	50,243.92
After 20 full years	24.465	20.388	50,887.08

 

   Effective on the first day of the first full pay period in July of 2004, the rates which were effective in January of 2003 shall be increased by two percent (2.0%) to create new wage rates as follows:

	80 HOUR RATE	96 HOUR RATE	ANNUALLY
Trainee	16.604	13.836	34,535.40
Probationary	17.791	14.826	37,004.95
After 1 year	18.978	15.815	39,474.49
After 2 years	21.349	17.791	44,405.09
After 3 years (full rate)	23.719	19.766	49,335.69
After 5 full years	24.027	20.023	49,976.41
After 10 full years	24.337	20.281	50,621.38
After 15 full years	24.639	20.533	51,249.37
After 20 full years	24.954	20.795	51,904.94

 

   Effective on the first day of the first full pay period in July of 2005, the rates which became effective in July, 2004 shall be increased by two percent (2.0%) to create new wage rates as follows:

	80 HOUR RATE	96 HOUR RATE	ANNUALLY
Trainee	16.936	14.113	35,226.11
Probationary	18.147	15.122	37,745.05
After 1 year	19.358	16.131	40,263.98
After 2 years	21.776	18.146	45,293.19
After 3 years (full rate)	24.193	20.161	50,322.40
After 5 full years	24.508	20.423	50,975.94
After 10 full years	24.824	20.687	51,633.80
After 15 full years	25.132	20.943	52,274.36
After 20 full years	25.453	21.211	52,943.04

 

   There shall be a one time lump sum payment of one percent (1%) on the first full pay period in January of 2005 for those on the payroll at the time of payment based on rates that become effective in July of 2005.

   Employees covered by this agreement get paid for 80 hours a pay period at the rates indicated above. In order to get the 96 hour rate, divide the 80 hour rate by 96.

   A Firefighter acting as a lieutenant after 1040 hours will get a Firefighter's pay for comparable years of service plus sixteen percent (16%).

   Lieutenant:

   Full rate for Firefighter with comparable years of service plus sixteen percent (16%) (differential includes step program).

   A Lieutenant acting as a Captain will get a Lieutenant's pay for comparable years of service plus fifteen percent (15%).

   Captain:

   Full rate for Fire Lieutenant with comparable years of service plus fifteen percent (15%) (differential includes step program).

   Paramedics:

   All paramedics, including paramedic officers, who are certified before 1993 will be paid an eight percent (8%) differential. All other paramedics will be paid a six percent (6%) differential.

   All paramedics shall meet the qualifications defined in the letter of agreement that establishes the parameters of the paramedic program.

(Ord. 594-06. Passed 8-22-06.)

2125.85 Meal Allowance

   The City will furnish a meal allowance to any employee of the Department who is held four (4) hours or more beyond the established quitting time for his/her regularly scheduled work day or tour of duty, or who has been recalled on an emergency basis. If the employee has been held over for four (4) hours, then either food will be procured and transported to the location where the employee is working, or if that is not possible, a meal allowance of three dollars and twenty-five cents ($3.25) shall be paid to each such member of the Department. Additional meals shall be furnished for each four (4) hour period that the employee is held over.

2125.86 Travel Allowance

   (A)   Employees authorized to use their private vehicle on City business shall be compensated at the IRS rate per mile in effect which may be deducted from the employee's Federal Income Tax without having to itemize specific expenditures as established by the Internal Revenue Service letter.

   Whenever members of the Maintenance Bureau are required to receive or deliver equipment and this assignment necessitates overnight travel and/or more than eight (8) hours travel time in any one day, said members shall be paid an additional four (4) hours pay at the regular straight time rate.

   (B)   Above travel allowance is to be paid only for authorized trips out of town. Employees will be compensated for normal use of private vehicles under Section 2125.88.

2125.87 Tool Allowance

   Employees assigned to the Maintenance Bureau who are required by the City to furnish the tools necessary for their jobs shall be paid a yearly tool allowance of three hundred dollars ($300.00). This payment shall be paid in July of each year. These employees will also be covered by a blanket theft insurance policy paid for by the City of Toledo.

2125.88 Travel and Clothing Maintenance Allowance

   Uniform employees of the Department of Fire & Rescue Operations will receive in a separate check by January 15 of each year a Travel and Clothing Maintenance Allowance of five hundred dollars ($500.00). This allowance will compensate employees for use of their personal vehicles on travel to other Fire Stations. It is not intended for distant travel to other cities when this becomes necessary. Further, this allowance is to compensate employees for the cleaning and repair of their uniforms.

   Employees who are required as part of their official duties to wear civilian clothes will receive a travel and clothing maintenance allowance of five hundred and twenty dollars ($520.00).

2125.89 Safety Stipends

   The City will provide an employee purchase plan whereby employees will be able to purchase safety shoes, safety glasses, including prescriptive lenses through a City program. The purchase program for the safety shoes and the safety glasses shall make these items available to the employee with sixty (60%) percent of the cost of the item to be paid by the City and the remaining forty (40%) percent to paid by the employee.

   The following stipends shall be provided to all firefighters in June 2003, January 2004, and in January 2005:

   (a)   $150.00 - Firefighter safety equipment not provided by the Department but conforming to Department's specifications and regulations in the event the Firefighter purchases same.

   (b)   $250.00 - Maintenance of the physical fitness necessary to effective fire fighting. The physical fitness stipend shall increase to Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) effective with the January 2004 payment.

   Said stipends shall be payable in the gross amount of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) in 2003 and Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) in 2004 and 2005. The 2003 payment shall be made in the June paycheck issued on or closest to June 30 to those members then on the payroll. For 2004, payment should be issued not later than January 31, 2004, and in 2005 payment shall be issued not later than January 31, 2005, to those members then on the payroll.

(Ord. 463-03. Passed 5-27-03.)