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TYPES OF TEMPORARY FIRE HIRE described on theysaid
(12/04):
If you know of any others or have any more details on these, email Ab.
AD - sign up with the local Forest or DOI office, produce
proof that you are qualified for a position (Red Card) and hope the
dispatch finds your name when they have run the Fed and State
availability list out. Some states have AD teams
because some state law precludes paying employees to work outside the
state. Signing up AD is easier than signing people up in other ways.
(Some rumbles that we're going to loose the AD pay plan.) Training of
any kind is often on your dime unless you are picked up as an IC Team 2
or 1 member. ID Dispatcher adds: Nationwide, under the AD Pay Plan, the
Forest Service has authority to hire an AD and pay for up to 80 hours of
training per year regardless of their AD position or quals.
EFF (Emergency Firefighter : think state AD) - for example, sign
up with Montana DNRC. This can be done by joining a fire department,
obtaining the training and qualifications. The Red Cards are controlled
and issued by/through the DNRC. Dispatch is handled by the Zone
Interagency Dispatch Center (usually a fed dispatch center doing double
duty). Training costs are usually handled by the fire department. If the
department is $ poor, you end up paying for your own training but are
higher on the selection process then an AD without sponsorship. EFF
already get about $2 LESS per hour than the ADs. EFF are covered by
Workmans Comp and do get OVERTIME. They do NOT get Hazard or any other
pay.
Temporary Rehire of State employee - in Montana, retirees sign up
with Montana DNRC. The trick here is keeping the Red Card up to date as
the DNRC isn't going to issue your Red Card until your first assignment.
You get hired at either the rate you retired at or cost adjusted and are
considered a State employee.
EERA Contract - yep, contract. As with all contractors, you
negotiate a pay rate. You are responsible for making and paying for your
own travel, food, sleep and medical needs (immediate need medical will
of course be covered but not hospital visits, transport, rescue, etc.).
As explained to me by the Forest Contract Officer, for other than
dispatching me, the government (at all levels) is free of obligation of
support. Basically, he said if it isn't specifically written into the
contract, it isn't covered. (Then I contacted my insurance company for
the necessary coverage. They were really nice but their eyes lit up with
flashing $ signs and I heard a lot of Ca-Ching-ing.)
A local city department - will often hire a retiree, for
example, some SoCal department "sponsor" you. If their policy is for 24
hr pay and much higher rate than AD, that's what you'll get. The
department makes out since they can then collect an administrative fee
of 18% for the billing.
Fed Source - very few retirees are hired this way because the
qualified person is usually hired as a subject matter expert rather than
a field expert; accrues huge overhead (45%; eg, in 2003, of $700,000
paid to people hired through Fed Source, $300,000 was paid to Fed Source
as overhead)
Personal services - bid on the job rather than being employed
at an hourly rate.
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