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Flood overtime costs for municipal managers to be covered by province

September 27, 2013 06:05 PM

Alberta: All southern Alberta districts can get the territory to grab the tab for their administration staff's surge reaction extra minutes hours regardless of a backfire against the practice in Calgary.

 

They recently require the paperwork to demonstrate its secured.

 

Administration additional time has been a prickly issue in Calgary since it rose a week ago the city paid $307,000 to senior committee chiefs out of an aggregate $6.5 million to non-union staff for additional hours logged throughout the crisis reaction.

 

Alberta Municipal Affairs clergyman Doug Griffiths had told media that administration additional time was not secured for repayment under the Disaster Recovery Program, yet an agent Thursday cleared up that to say just gatherings that didn't recently have an arrangement taking into consideration it might pass up a major opportunity.

 

"It's not a programmed scope. There is a documentation that needs to happen. Anyway ... provided that the district does have a previous approach and can report that, then it is something that is secured."

 

The region had affirmed this stance with the city of Calgary, which has had an approach taking into account administration extra time since 2007.

 

In High River, an approach passed in January 2012 approved administration extra time pay, incorporating for chiefs and the head authoritative officer, throughout a state of crisis.

 

An agent affirmed administration additional time might be part of its DRP docility.

 

In Medicine Hat, city approach takes into account extra time pay to non-union staff "where formal, drawn out or outstanding circumstances go out".

 

Chamber human assets general chief James Will said the top three non-union levels — the CAO, magistrates and general directors — did not get extra time.

 

"We had a few positions underneath that that appropriated some recompense that perhaps wasn't essentially hour for every hour."

 

Not High River or Medicine Hat could give their sum non-union installments.

 

In Turner Valley, $42,000 had been paid out, and chamber executive of recuperation co-appointment Ray Reid said that figure could incorporate a couple of supervisors.

 

"I'm not sure if they did claim for the hours since everyone was asked to invest the hours paying little mind to if there was a (DRP) claim or not ... so we could sit down that was needed."

 

The city of Lethbridge evaded the pattern.

 

It didn't give non-union additional time pay, yet offered directors up to two weeks leave in lieu a year, and extra time hours could go to that.

 

Chamber human assets general chief Jason Elliott said the town might search to recuperate takes for staff sent to help in hard-hit High River.

 

Calgary Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who aroused unsuccessfully against the city's administration additional time pay approach, had trusted the issue might not succumb to the DRP.

 

"I was truly trusting the territory wouldn't wade in ... furthermore begin paying extra minutes to administration in any district in Alberta.

 

"Our unions ... are qualified for extra minutes and after that for them to see that administration get extra minutes (when) administration are on compensation and administration get execution rewards ... its just completely unsuitable."

 

Chairman Naheed Nenshi has said the strategy that permits senior directors to get overtime pay needs to change.

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