Common use of FIRE AND RESCUE DUTY Clause in Contracts

FIRE AND RESCUE DUTY. Subject to the operating needs of an agency or department, an employee who is a member of a municipal fire and/or rescue team reachable within a thirty (30) minute drive from his or her work location shall, in the absence of conflicting State emergency or other urgent State business, be granted leave without loss of pay or benefits to answer emergency alarms or calls, not drills, within his or her municipality or outside the municipality as part of a mutual aid call; or multiple alarm calls; or conflagration for which the employee is reasonably available and is called and has so notified his or her appointing authority to the extent practicable. An employee covered by this Article shall be entitled to carry a pager while on duty.

FIRE AND RESCUE DUTY. Subject to the operating needs of an agency or department, an employee who is a member of a municipal fire and/or rescue team reachable within a thirty (30) minute drive from his or her work location shall, in the absence of conflicting State emergency or other urgent State business, be granted leave without loss of pay or benefits to answer emergency alarms or calls, not drills, within his or her municipality or outside the municipality as part of a mutual aid call; or multiple alarm calls; or conflagration for which the employee is reasonably available and is called and has so notified his or her appointing authority to the extent practicablepractical. An employee covered by this Article shall be entitled to carry a pager while on duty.

FIRE AND RESCUE DUTY. Subject to the operating needs of an agency or department, an employee who is a member of a municipal fire and/or rescue team reachable within a thirty (30) -minute drive from his or her work location shall, in the absence of conflicting State emergency or other urgent State business, be granted leave without loss of pay or benefits to answer emergency alarms or calls, not drills, within his or her municipality or outside the municipality as part of a mutual aid call; or multiple alarm calls; or conflagration for which the employee is reasonably available and is called and has so notified his or her appointing authority to the extent practicable. An employee covered by this Article shall be entitled to carry a pager while on duty.