At will employment

Today’s burning question: I am a fire chief and in our city, all department heads who face termination have a right to a pre-disciplinary hearing and if terminated a right to a hearing before a panel or arbitrator. I believe ...

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A New Hampshire fire chief who found out he was terminated because he happened to be watching a televised board of selectmen meeting from his home, has filed a wrongful termination suit. Fire Chief Peter Varney claims he was given ...

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A rather strange case of harassment directed at both a father and a son has prompted a lawsuit in Westchester County. Matthew Bruno, a probationary firefighter with the Greenville Fire District who was terminated last September after complaining about being ...

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Today’s burning question: I am a part-time firefighter. What is the maximum number of hours that I can work without being considered full-time or entitled to the same benefits of the full-time firefighters? I am not concerned about qualifying for ...

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Two employment related cases on the East Coast are in the headlines, and while we don’t have much in the way of details on either one they certainly appear to be YCMTSU cases worth following. In Simpsonville, South Carolina, the ...

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Some cases never seem to go away. There always seems to be one more filing, one more twist. That is the case with fired Stockton, California Fire Chief Ron Hittle. Back in early 2011 he was suspended based on his ...

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What role should politics play in the fire service? Now there’s a question for the ages! That question is at the heart of a law suit filed last week by Dighton Massachusetts Fire Chief Antone Roderick Jr.  However the politicians ...

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It is hardly unusual these days for a fire chief to be terminated. Fire chiefs are under attack from all sides – including angry firefighters, and upset political bosses. What is unusual is when a community rallies around a fired ...

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On Tuesday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the case of Fire Chief Steven Earl Elliott, formerly of the Enka-Candler Fire and Rescue Department. Chief Elliott had an employment agreement with the department through October 31, ...

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The former Fire Commissioner of the Chicago Fire Department has filed suit against Mayor Richard Daley claiming the mayor and his chief of staff forced him to resign over false sexual harassment allegations. Chief John Brooks resigned on May 7, ...

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In what seems to be a disturbing trend, the third California fire chief in the past 2 weeks has filed suit against his employer. Fire Chief Ron Hittle filed suit last Thursday against the city of Stockton, seeking to challenge the city’s right ...

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