The Federal Wildland Firefighters get a permanent salary generated Friday after Years waiting For Congress to meet their prayer.
Is attached to Spend Bill Congress approved is a new charge fee charter and event-response to premium fees, which are available to employees assigned to active fire.
The bill next to President Donald Trump to sign the law.
The new spacal scale means firefighters keep their temporary salary at $ 20,000 per year or 50% of their base salary, referred to by 2021 under the Biden administration.
Firefighters are not eligible for premium fees for fires that are within 36 hours. Salary is calculated by 450% of their base rate for each day a firefighter is in an active fire and limited to one year calendar.
It marks the first time to pay federal firefighters at the time they can rest and sleep while away from home, which is the basic departments of municipal and state.
“For many years, our union and NGE members are empty for a lasting salary solution for the Federal Wildland Firefighters,” President of the National Federal Union, a statement said.
“Now, the fight paid,” he added. “A permanent pay of salary we can transfer our focus on resolving other critical issues – health benefits, rest, rest, rest in the health of the Wildland Firefortive Firefortive Workforce.”
Payment fees come as Federal Firefighters recovered from the cuts of their ranks after the agricultural department, in charge of the US forest service, which has been returned for over February. At least 2,000 of them have primary or secondary duties to fire fire, according to Ntecke.
Order to return employees Earlier this week comes from a Federal Service Service Board Service, found firing mass may not be unlawful. Rule the USDA to return employees to their jobs for at least 45 days with a back fee.
On Thursday, a federal California judge ordered many departments, defenses, energy, reconciliation of thousands of attempted attempts completed in February.
But the next not clear is unclear. The Trump administration set a deadline on March 13 deadline for all federal agencies to submit organizational plans again to start the force. “
Those cuts can include federal firefighters.
“We don’t expect this this way,” says Steve Gutierrez, a Nine union representative. “I want to celebrate, but I don’t want to do it when people lose their jobs and and these men can cut later.”
Uncertainty has already taken excitement for the forest service. In the last month, Randy Moore, the first black man who carried the helm, resigned after more than 45 years of forest service. In his staff retirement note, Moore said he felt the whole burden of today’s political flow.
“If you feel uncertainty, frustration, or loss, you are not alone,” he wrote. “These are real and valid emotions I feel too.”
The resignations continued this week when top foresters who oversaw forests in California, Nevada, Utana, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota stepped down effective March 28, according to the NFFE.
The Angeles National Forest forest supervisor, who has just been beaten by fatal fire in food, resigned.
