300 Police Officers are not expendable we hope FOP didn't toss them away.HOLD UP THERE PARTNER your foot is stuck in your spur.
Don't shoot the messenger, some of you may even refer to us as the town crier.
The city now has medical numbers that allegedly increased over a seven year span. Approximately from around 157 to about 373 NoN-IOD officers working or so we gather. True the city uses full duty Officer's for numerous inside desk positions through out the department. These positions can be covered by the few limited duty Officers above. You other Full duty, don't flip out its a fact. If true limited (ADA) is being told their no longer cost effective useless and their not doing what they were hired to do. How on earth is the city justifying full duty sitting inside at a desk? Fair is Fair, were the thin Blue line remember, brother's and sister's? Well, we shall now all have a real chance to see if we actually are true Blue. Limited will need their Full Duty support. Jealousy will not add into the equation, no control over the clouted.
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Per FOP news letter dated June 2007 page 5, bottom half of page under the heading,
DISABILITY REPORT & VETERAN'S CORNER, by Carlos Saladino
my heart beats for ya.
Quote Limited Duty Non-IOD (Light Duty) - The Committee has received calls on possible policy change by the Department.
As of this writing, (cute) no policy change has been issued. Airborne Sal
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Now comes this. on a Friday that's today, maybe some of the units were holding it back since it is dated effective for June 01, 2007 and it says there was already a sit down with FOP. Were dumb founded but not surprised. Vague whispers of rumours of the change have been floating about recently with the proverbial shhhhhhhhhhh.
Were going to provide the twitch from reading the fax from Ann Eagan after the shake of the head. No the twitch is not from "OH NO!" Its due to some of the double speak and the clear knowledge that the fax will end up with as many interpretations as we have boss's. City experience speaking, maybe A. Egan is different but it's still city speak.
We need to review the fax more than once and so do you but were giving you what we have read so far or what were able to make sense out of .
As of June 1st. hey, that was 15 days ago? Medical limited duty policy has changed or so it says.
Hope you were not off work and never notified. Oh yeah, its the city disregard.
Does the fax actually mean. If you were NON-IOD limited duty prior to 01 June 07, you keep your status and if later than 01, you get a Convalescent duty status with the original 6 month review, except that's it.
After 6 mths. you either go back full duty or your to be forced off and into disability status at 50% pay, taxed, pay your own fee's and insurance and you cannot hold another job to boost income which also exhausts out $, after oh about 4-5 yrs. depending on how long you have been on the job in order to earn the 4-5. That's where you will have to fight to get your job back unless and even though you would have to return full-duty. No, returning is not always easy regardless of those who may say otherwise, different strokes for different fokes.
Funny, the fax says you get your medical time or at least that's what we read. You know, your contractual right for 1 year for every 2 years you work, which is counted by a computer after being added and entered by the human hand. Has to come from some where, right? You didn't know? Well, now you do never any error's made by the city, right?
Or did the fax say if you take medical time after six months of convalescing you have to come back full duty regardless of how long you were designated in a limited duty and convalescent duty status? See what we mean. AFTER ALL IT'S ALL ABOUT INTERPRETATION, THE CITY'S, THAT IS.
We will later tonight or very early A.M. provide fuller detail. P.S. FOP closed by 4 P.M. today and won't return till Monday the 18th, we hope. After all it is HAPPY FATHER'S DAY.