Excerpts from shawlocal.com:
During the Dixon City Council’s regular meeting Monday, June 4;
- the council approved a memorandum of understanding between the city of Dixon and Dixon Firefighters Association Local 1943 to temporarily modify firefighters’ regular work hours. The agreement states that beginning July 22, 2024, Dixon City firefighters will work a schedule of 48 hours on followed by 96 hours off until July 22, 2025. Firefighters are currently on a schedule of 24 hours on followed by 48 hours off and are looking to see if this change in schedule would be beneficial to them because they would have a greater amount of consecutive time off to relax and spend time with their families, McCoy said while presenting the agenda item. In June 2025, the council will vote to make the 48/96 schedule permanent or return to the 24/48 schedule.
#1 by Pat on June 10, 2024 - 6:28 AM
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I would say this works in places where the rigs aren’t running a ton of calls.
#2 by Andy on June 9, 2024 - 11:49 AM
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The 48/96 is very popular on the west coast. Most places limit the max hours worked to 72. Making either the day before or after your shift as a potential mandatory day.
I’m sure any legalities of it have all ready been worked out from people who have been doing it a long time. Guys I’ve talked to who work it, love it. There is obviously some adjustments that need to be made, but it’s very doable.
#3 by Mike on June 9, 2024 - 9:40 AM
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Chuck the hours are still the same. It is still a 56 hour work week. Elburn, Ottawa and Peru I believe all work a 48/96 schedule. While the 4 days off seems great. 48 hours is a long time to be away and if it’s busy it probably isn’t fun. There are some positives to this schedule though.
#4 by Chuck on June 8, 2024 - 10:17 PM
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Did anybody crunch the numbers to see if this violates the FLSA – even though there’s a firefighter exemption, how many weekly average hours does this come out to – more importantly, what about rehires in case of layups, furloughs and the like – what “shift” so to speak do they start with and does that blow up the hourly average? And if your relief lays up, are you held over the 48 hour mark? Would like to see those answers before supporting this idea.