Fair Proposal for Employee Rest Days After Continuous Work

Offering 2-days off (NA) after 5-days worked

A proposal was brought to your Union District Board by our members for review.

The basic proposal is this; after an employee has worked 5 days in a row (120 hrs.), they are offered the chance to have 2 days off (48 hrs.)

Why did they make this proposal? CAL FIRE / RRU / RVC has had a significant increase in requiring staff to stay on duty during Staffing Patterns, Fire Assignments, and Ordered Overtime in FY 20/21 The requirement to stay on-duty is placing a physical and emotional strain on all employees of the department, increasing complaints and lowering morale. The Department recognizes the need to let employees go home to R&R and maintain their physical and mental well- being. CAL FIRE recognizes mental health as a priority. Policy 1757 is based on long-term fire assignments; not day- to-day call volume of RVC fire.

Therefore, this proposal does not require time off, but provides a way to fairly offer it to our members with some basic stipulations to ensure the department can meet its mission!

After being on-duty for five (5) consecutive days (120 hours), BU8 R&F employees will be offered two (2) Not-Available (NA) days for R&R following the procedure outlined below. Procedure: 1. BC s will manage the schedule utilizing all current policies and procedures. 2. When the schedule shows an EE to be on-duty consecutively for 5 days (120 hrs.), the EE will be offered 2-NA days. 3. This will only apply to EE s working on normally staffed Fire Apparatus for 24-hour periods. 4. This will not apply to EE s on Training, Fire Assignment, or Staffing Pattern. a. This will not apply during red weeks as outlined in the RRU AAV process. 5. If there are no available EE s to work (unit-wide) with less than 120 hours consecutively, then the most appropriate EE with 120 consecutive hours or more may be used to keep the equipment in-service and the NA day(s) will be removed and replaced with OOT. a. When the EE who has already worked 120 hours consecutively must be used to maintain staffing, the RVC OSS OOT and associated Desk Procedure shall be utilized to make the selection. 6. When an EE s schedule does not permit a two-day reset immediately following five or more days worked due to pre- existing voluntary OT or a schedule rotation, the employee will not be eligible for a force until given the opportunity to have a 2-day reset. a. Voluntary overtime taken on what would be the employees reset days waives the employee s right to additional reset days. 7. Nothing in this directive will override current CALFIRE, RVC, MOU, or other standing policies and procedures.

We need to know whether you, the membership, supports this proposal or not. We are asking you to vote on the direction you wish the District to take.

Ifthemembership supports the proposal and votes to pursue it, the District will commence preliminary talks with management and strive to achieve it. If the vote is to not pursue, the District will not engage discussions.

Our Dept. is very complex, and there will be many issues to discuss if this proposal were to be enacted. However, we need to know where you stand.

The basic framework of the proposal, as submitted by our members out of Battalion 2, provides a basis to build off of and if supported by you will allow us to engage management. As we work through this survey more info, details and answers will be provided to better educate and empower the membership.

Please click on the link and vote . Thank you https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q32S8JT CAL FIRE Local 2881 District VI