Posted by: jimfior02 on: July 16, 2009
Calling it “a model for other cities and towns”, the Boston Globne today endorsed Mayor Fiorentini’s proposals to reduce overtime and sick leave by monitoring the use of sick time.
The Globe said said:
The Boston Globe, July 16, 2009
Taxpayers in Haverhill got more than their money’s worth from the $13,000 spent on a private investigator who videotaped four of the city’s firefighters performing tasks such as lugging furniture, shoveling snow, and attending a hockey game after calling in sick. It appears that some Haverhill firefighters have caught the “dupe-the-public bug’’ common in other fire departments where overtime costs and sick time spike way above comparable costs in other city departments. The Haverhill firefighters union is calling it an unfair labor practice. But Mayor James Fiorentini is more concerned with fairness to the taxpayers and the overall fiscal health of his city. His efforts to sanitize Haverhill’s firehouses should be a model for other cities and towns with similar problems.
