> Under the proposals, a firefighter on an annual retainer of €8,870 would see it rise to €11,769.
Curious to know, do firefighters receive additional payments on top of the retainer based on number of call outs/hours on active duty?
Don’t know if any of ye remember my posts about this strike from the last few weeks but Retained firefighters across Ireland are going to go back on Strike starting next week due to the recruitment and retention crisis the service is experiencing at the moment.
The industrial action was suspended for 2 weeks due to the labour court making a ruling on it. The labour court offer was rejected by over 80% of Siptu members in the force.
The offer was a 24% pay increase which sounds great but when your paid 1 euro an hour its not a lot, one of the other points was an increase in staff in every station to 12. In theory that would give us every second week off with a 6 on 6 off roster. The problems with that are we can’t get the staff in at the moment, 400 available jobs in the retained fire service at the moment across Ireland and they plan on recruiting 400 – 500 more magically and that if we do have a week on, week off roster that will mean we only get paid half as much due to missing calls on our weeks off.
None of this made sense to the firefighters in the force and it has been overwhelmingly rejected as expected. There are already stations closing due to lack of staff and I fear that it will get worse. This important service is on the brink of collapse and the government are doing nothing to put it right.
2 comments
> Under the proposals, a firefighter on an annual retainer of €8,870 would see it rise to €11,769.
Curious to know, do firefighters receive additional payments on top of the retainer based on number of call outs/hours on active duty?
Don’t know if any of ye remember my posts about this strike from the last few weeks but Retained firefighters across Ireland are going to go back on Strike starting next week due to the recruitment and retention crisis the service is experiencing at the moment.
The industrial action was suspended for 2 weeks due to the labour court making a ruling on it. The labour court offer was rejected by over 80% of Siptu members in the force.
The offer was a 24% pay increase which sounds great but when your paid 1 euro an hour its not a lot, one of the other points was an increase in staff in every station to 12. In theory that would give us every second week off with a 6 on 6 off roster. The problems with that are we can’t get the staff in at the moment, 400 available jobs in the retained fire service at the moment across Ireland and they plan on recruiting 400 – 500 more magically and that if we do have a week on, week off roster that will mean we only get paid half as much due to missing calls on our weeks off.
None of this made sense to the firefighters in the force and it has been overwhelmingly rejected as expected. There are already stations closing due to lack of staff and I fear that it will get worse. This important service is on the brink of collapse and the government are doing nothing to put it right.