Posts Tagged: Layoff
Kansas Chief Seeks $1.3 million for Sex Discrimination
A deputy chief who was laid off by the Topeka Fire Department in 2010 due to budget cuts, has filed a claim for $1.3 million alleging that the elimination of her position, and the refusal to rehire her for a training position, was gender based and retali…
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Scranton Firefighters Challenge Layoff
A group of firefighters and police officers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, have filed suit to reverse a layoff decision that they claim violates a local ordinance. Mayor Chris Doherty ordered the layoffs on July 29, 2011 seeking to save roughly $212,000…
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A Rough Road Ahead
Cincinnati Local 48 puts out video about proposed layoff of 169 firefighters.
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One in custody following another arson last night in Flint, Michigan. Mutual aid pulling out as fires continue.
Officials don't believe man in custody is responsible for the larger string of fires.
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Quick Takes
Lots of fire and EMS news for Monday.
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What you liked in 2009. The most popular stories of last year from STATter911.com. Plus, our contest winner.
The 20 stories you clicked on the most in 2009. And believe it or not, the man in this picture didn't make the top 10.
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Oak Park (IL) Firefighters Retire Early to Facilitate the Return of Laid-Off Brothers
“…It's disheartening and hurtful to be portrayed as the economic destroyers of the community, the ones who work such a short career and live such a wonderfully long retirement at the expense of the people we served - portrayed as something bad, as if our work, lives, careers were some sort of scam we have perpetrated on the community. I guess on a line item in a budget or in a ledger, we are just another number.”
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