a. Deployment under this MOU shall be limited to employees who satisfy the
qualifications of the requesting agency and volunteer for the deployment. In
addition, those employees who meet the qualifications of the assignment must be
signed up in Telestaff on the wildland call-back list. At no point will wildland
deployment become mandatory for any employee.
5. Employee Compensation for Deployments
a. For out-of-zone 3 resource mobilizations, participating employees will be
compensated at the rate of one and one-half times the employees’ regular rate of
pay, including travel time to and from the event, and while actively employed at
the event for 16 hours per 24-hour day. During periods of rest, up to a maximum
of 8 hours per 24-hour day, employees shall not be compensated. An employee
will be compensated at their normal hourly rate for the 24-hour days that fall on
that employee's normally scheduled duty shift of 24 hours on duty.
6. Injury, Illness, Family Emergency During Deployment
a. During the time of deployment, all employees shall be covered by any and all
applicable benefits, as would normally occur if the employee was working within
their normal assignment.
b. During the time of deployment, if an employee has a Family Emergency, the
employer will make all arrangements to return the employee back from where
they are deployed to the Port of Seattle station #1. The employer will also make
the arrangements to deploy a replacement employee to complete the assignment,
in compliance with sections 3 and section 4 of this agreement.
7. Holiday Pay for Day Staff During Deployment
a. If an employee is assigned to days and is deployed during a holiday that employee
will receive their normal eight (8) or ten (10) hours holiday pay, day shift
firefighters who work on the holiday will also receive time and one-half for hours
worked in accordance with Section 20.2 of the collective bargaining agreement
that ends on December 31, 2027, and the corresponding section of any successor
agreement.
8. Debit Day During Deployment
a. If an employee has a debit day or debit day off during deployment, the debit day
will be reflected and a normal day worked. The employee’s pay will be reflected
as such. In the instance the employee has a debit day off, the employee will not
receive an additional debit day and will not be paid overtime for the scheduled
debit day off.
9. Trades During Deployment
a. If an employee has a trade to pay back during a deployment, the employer will
cover the shift in a manner consistent with the overtime policy and that employee
will owe the department those hours back within 6 months of returning from their
deployment.
b. If the employee has a trade paid forward during deployment the employer will
cover the shift in a manner consistent with the overtime policy and that employee
will be paid straight time for that workday.
10. Rest Period After Mobilization
a. Personnel on mobilization under this MOU will be allowed a rest period prior to
returning to their scheduled shift. Those who have been deployed for greater than
