Orlando firefighters who use city-owned equipment will soon have to follow new rules when they are working off-duty jobs, reports wftv.com.
When off-duty Orlando firefighters work at Orlando Magic basketball games at the Amway Center the teams pay the firefighters’ salaries and give the city a 15 percent fee.
Off-duty firefighters work in Orlando uniforms, in Orlando trucks and use Orlando city equipment.
Channel 9 learned that some vendors, including the vendor from the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival last year, have been able to bypass paying the city’s 15 percent fee by paying firefighters directly, either with cash or checks. That leaves the city uncompensated for the use of taxpayer-funded equipment.
On Wednesday, irefighters’ union president Steve Clelland said the city has now changed its policy.
“The chief advised us today the practice would stop immediately. That all off-duty, as it should be since day one, all-off duty firefighters are paid back through the city. The vendor pays the city, the city pays firefighters,” said Clelland.
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