Posted by: jimfior02 on: July 29, 2008
Our contracts with our unions provide that if an employee needs time off for union business, then they can do that on city time and we will pay them for the time. If we have to fill the spot with another employee, we pay that other employee time and half. All of this is standard [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: July 23, 2008
There has been a lot written about overtime and sick leave in the city. We are taking steps to control and limit the amount of overtime and sick leave being taken.
This has the fire department union bent out of shape, and they used the City council meeting on Tuesday to take a few shots at [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: July 13, 2008
The Eagle Tribune wrote a story recently on our efforts to control overtime and sick leave in the city budget. There were some errors in the story, some very minor, some not so minor. The overall gist of the story was correct: we have a problem with sick leave and we are working hard to correct [...]
