The changes the Raleigh City Council made to employee benefits for first responders – changes to go along with a pay hike for police and firefighters – spurred protests from those valued emergency personnel, and the Raleigh City Council has responded by scuttling some of the changes.
One policy, for example, would have changed the number of hours for which city employees would get time-and-a-half pay on holidays. Police and firefighters work 12-hour shifts, but they would have gotten holiday pay for only eight of those hours. That’s gone now, and city employees also will be not be prohibited from earning sick leave if they’re injured working a second job.