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- From: "IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
- To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] job security
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:30:25 -0500
You will have to check local and state
laws. Currently in PA if you are on an emergency response as a fire, ems, or rescue
squad member your employer is not supposed to take any
action against you except he does not have to pay you for lost time. He is not
required to release you to respond but those employers who do get their fires
put out by the local volunteers a little faster so if they can they do so.
Before they left town one big unionized shop had it in their contract that any
fire company members on the floor had to go to fires or get fired. There
is legislation pending to allow an employer to get a state tax CREDIT for the
costs in having an employee respond to fires on company time. This includes
lost time, wages, benefits, product, etc. Lastly, if a volunteer is IOD
the employer has to treat it as if you were IOJ except that the volunteer
agency’s township of residence pays the comp claim (and they never pay).
If you are member of a recognized unit you are a public safety officer for state
and federal benefits. And in PA your horse is a police animal, protected
24/7 by state law. Law enforcement officers and paid firefighters are not
allowed to leave their work but if their home department wants to they can
mutual aid them to a search or other agency. And what you do on your time
is your business, exception: Some career departments have contract clauses
forbidding employment with any other emergency response organization without
written permission. In PA a volunteer SAR organization is an employer
with the comp provided by the township of residence. Most municipal employees
in areas covered by volunteer responders are allowed to respond in town. The key to all this is being a member of a
recognized emergency response organization. If you are not dispatched
through an ECC,EOC, PSAP, 9-11 center, if you do not have access to public
safety agency radio communications, if the organization is not considered an
emergency responder by the state police, or whatever the criterion are in your
state, you don’t get protection or benefits. By the way, your employer does not have to
save your job unless you are federalized in the Guard or Reserve, state
activation does carry that protection. But, it is likely that your employer
will be out of business during the disaster anyway. PA pays for
maximum life insurance for Guardsmen on duty, and classifies them as the same
as other responders for death benefits—roughly $150,000 lump sum, dependent
children’s tuition and other college costs guaranteed at any of the state’s
14 state universities, the state related private universities (Temple and Pitt),
and the land grant university, Penn State. The student must apply for any
available aid but the Commonwealth will make up the difference needed for a
bachelor’s degree, including books and dormitory costs, without a needs
test. Irv Lichtenstein From:
msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:msar-riders-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of Becky |
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[MSAR] job security,
Becky, 03/18/2007
- Re: [MSAR] job security, Charles L. Sparke, 03/18/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
philip easley, 03/18/2007
- Re: [MSAR] job security, Pennbo's, 03/19/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
Patty Montoya, 03/20/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
Thor Burfine, 03/20/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 03/21/2007
- Re: [MSAR] job security, Una Smith, 03/25/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 03/21/2007
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Re: [MSAR] job security,
Thor Burfine, 03/20/2007
- Re: [MSAR] job security, IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 03/19/2007
- Re: [MSAR] job security, Una Smith, 03/19/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- [MSAR] job security, Becky, 03/22/2007
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