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Mr. Cote, the shift sheets certainly do not show all vacation, sick, IOD, etc. are picked up at an overtime rate. A quick glance at the first 8 days of Q1 (7/1-7/8, and 1 full rotation through all 4 shifts) shows approximately 55% of Vacation absences covered by overtime pay.
The first 8 days of Q2 show nearly 50% of vacation absences are covered at overtime.
The first 8 days of Q3 show that just 1 vacation absence out of 42 was covered at overtime. Thats 2.4%.
The first 8 days of Q4 show that 0 (ZERO!) vacation absences out of 71 were covered at overtime.
Why such a change? Well the article above erroneously claims a recruit class was hired in february which brought the department to full staffing. In fact the class didn't finish the training academy until late november. After the department was brought to full staffing, WITH A FULL COMPLEMENT OF FLOATERS, overtime was significantly reduced. In fact the period from 7/1/16- 11/19/16 accounted for just shy of 76% of all overtime shifts worked for the fiscal year. ITS A STAFFING ISSUE. and if you don't want to increase staff, then, to quote Dan Yorke, "YOU HAVE A BUDGETING ISSUE."
Now admittedly these aren't the full shift sheets. I don't have your 1800 pages of digitized documents. but your claim that all absences are covered at OT pay rate is ridiculous and false!
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