Tag Archives: secondary employment

Ten Cleveland firefighters are facing disciplinary charges after it was discovered they were working second jobs while scheduled to work in Cleveland. The investigation began after the I-Team from Fox8 revealed that Cleveland firefighters were being paid to work in the Village of Woodmere for the same hours they were being paid to work in Cleveland.

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Today’s burning question: I am a career firefighter plus I work part time for my city as a bus driver. Can the city pay me different rates of pay and does the city have to include the hours from my bus driving job when calculating overtime for my fire department job?

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Thirty-five Cleveland firefighters are being disciplined for working in violation of the department’s secondary employment policy. The discipline follows an investigation prompted by a local TV Station, WOIO-TV Channel 19, that proclaimed “some Cleveland firefighters [were] violating the policy on part-time work, putting themselves and citizens at risk.”

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The Atlanta Fire Department, already in the spotlight over the termination of a well respected fire chief, Kelvin Cochran, is again in the news over reports that firefighters assigned to the fire prevention division are working part-time jobs in clubs they are responsible to inspect.

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