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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.
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).
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.)
Employees who terminate their employment with the City for any reason shall have their termination pay computed in the following manner.
A. They shall be compensated for any earned vacation and bonus vacation including any vacation carried over from the previous year plus vacation earned the year in which the employee terminated. The computation of the vacation earned in the year in which the employee terminated shall be in accordance with the following table:
Entitled to 2 weeks - .916 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 3 weeks - 1.333 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 4 weeks - 1.750 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 5 weeks - 2.166 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 6 weeks - 2.583 x the number of months worked
B. In addition to the above, the employee shall be paid for any holidays worked for which he has not been compensated either in the form of pay or time off. If the employee was entitled to discretionary holidays and has not taken them and terminates on or before June 30, they shall receive pay for one (1) discretionary holiday. If the employee terminates after June 30, they shall receive pay for two (2) discretionary holidays.
C. Employees who retire or die or who separate in good standing from employment after twenty-five (25) years of service shall also receive severance pay for unused sick time in accordance with the provisions of Section 2125.67, Accumulation of Sick Days.
D. An employee shall be entitled to the pay-outs herein no later than 90 days after said employee terminates.
Effective the first full pay period in January of 2000 and thereafter, the City shall pay a shift premium for regular hours worked to dispatch supervisors and the Fire Investigation Unit (Arson) as provided herein.
A shift premium of forty cents ($0.40) per hour worked shall be paid to any such employee who is scheduled to start work on or after 11:00 a.m. and before 7:00 p.m. Starting times within this period shall be known as the afternoon shift.
A shift premium of thirty-five cents ($0.35) per hour worked shall be paid to any such employee who is scheduled to start work on or after 7:00 p.m. and before 3:00 a.m. Starting times within this period shall be known as the night shift.
(a) Every employee shall be a resident of the City of Toledo unless they have been granted a waiver.
(b) Pursuant to Section 61 of the Charter of the City of Toledo, if the Firefighter has established and maintained his residence outside the limits of the City of Toledo prior to November 7, 1972, the Firefighter shall be allowed to continue such residency during his employment with the City of Toledo.
(c) An employee of the City who wishes to seek a waiver of the residency requirement shall apply in writing to the Department of Human Resources on the application form provided by the City. The employee must set forth the facts meeting the Charter criteria that non-residence of such employee would be in the best interest of the City and that justice to such employee requires waiver of the residency requirement. Based upon the documentation presented, the City's Chief Executive will make a determination as to whether the Charter criteria have been met. The decision of the Chief Executive shall be considered final. The Chief Executive may at his/her option grant temporary, limited, or conditional waivers as he/she sees fit.
(Ord. 463-03. Passed 5-27-03.)
The services performed by the Department of Fire & Rescue Operations are essential to the public health, safety and welfare. The Union and the City, therefore, agree there shall be no interruption of the work for any cause whatsoever nor shall there be any work slowdown or other interference with services. Firefighters may be required to go through picket lines where an emergency exists or is believed to exist, to protect the public health, safety and welfare. Steps will be taken by the City to ensure that Firefighters will not be considered strikebreakers.
A Local 92 representative shall have no authority to take strike action or any other action interrupting the City's operation. The City will not engage in a lockout of the Firefighters during the term of this Title of the Code.
If any Article or Section of this Chapter 2125 of the Code or of any rider thereto should be held invalid by operation of law or by any tribunal of competent jurisdiction, or if compliance with or enforcement of any Article or Section should be restrained by such tribunal pending a final determination as to its validity, the remainder of this Chapter of the Code or any rider thereto, or the application of such Article or Section to persons or circumstances other than these as to which it has been held invalid or as to which compliance with or enforcement of has been restrained, shall not be affected thereby.
It is the intent of the City and the Organizations that should any Article or Section of the Chapter of the Code be held invalid or inoperable, that Section or article shall be renegotiated in an attempt to provide validity, operability or acceptability to such Section or Article.
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