Members of the Huntington Fire Department have filed a lawsuit claiming the city hasn’t paid them properly for time worked on holidays.
With 83 members, Huntington has the third largest fire department in the state. The complaint, filed Aug. 5 in Cabell Circuit Court, lists all 83 members of the department as plaintiffs. The City of Huntington is listed as the defendant. Lieutenant Steve McCormick is the president of International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) local 289 and the first listed plaintiff.
“The West Virginia Legislature has set a holiday pay enhancement for firefighters statewide. Police, too,” attorney Teresa Toriseva, who is representing the firefighters, previously has told The West Virginia Record when she filed similar lawsuits in other cities. “But there is a big problem in the way the holiday pay is being calculated for firefighters in numerous cities across West Virginia.