Days Off Canceled?

Cha-ching!!! Right?

Well, not really:

• FOP Contract Section 11.2 - Compensation for Holidays
  
  Section C
  
  Employees whose regular day off coincides with an established holiday, and who are required to work a regular tour of duty (eight hours) on that holiday, will be credited with twenty (20) hours compensatory time and four (4) hours of compensatory time or additional pay, as the officer elects.

So 20 hours time due plus 4 hours pay OR 24 hours on the books. We don't know if the change in Start Time (+/- two hours) still takes effect, but if you work days and they start you at 1600 hours, there might be an additional Time Due slip to fill out.

This is without a doubt, the worst run event we've seen in years. If the mayor's Special Events people and the Department's Special Events Section paid even the tiniest amount of attention to the past three years, the Taste has been getting progressively worse, yet they aren't detailing nearly enough people to control the crowds. Now the proverbial shit is hitting the fan and the brass is in a panic, canceling days off and sending every warm body they can find to a detail that should be a matter of routine after 20-plus years.