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Pasco County Fire Rescue is pioneering a significant change in firefighter scheduling, transitioning from the conventional 24 hours on followed by 48 hours off shift schedule, to a 24‑hour on and 72‑hour off shift schedule. The new shift schedule will result in a 42-hour average workweek for the county’s firefighters. According to Fox 13, the new shift schedule aims to ...

Polk County Fire Commissioners have authorized spending $9.2 million to hire an additional 75 firefighters. The hiring plan is in response to significant employee turn-over, which according to some is partly due to excessive mandatory overtime. County officials hope that the move will significantly decrease firefighter overtime. The current levels of overtime frequently require Polk County firefighters to work beyond ...

Following several years of sparring between the City of Wilmington, DE and its firefighters’ union, the city is proposing a drastic change to the firefighters’ work shifts. The city has submitted a proposal to a neutral third-party arbitrator calling for firefighters to move from a four-platoon to a three-platoon organizational structure as a way to save money. According to ABC ...