Uniformed Operational Staff Working Shifts - Find a freedom of information request

1. Does your service have a formal system that allows uniformed operational staff to swap shifts? For example a fire-fighter who is due to work a Saturday can swap his work day with a fire-fighter who is rostered off?

2. If so, does your service record these swaps and keep a running tally of the swaps for the individuals?

3. What happens when one resigns or retires? Does your service have a way of dealing with any positive or negative balances for these swaps? For example the swap mentioned above what would happen if either of them then resigned or retired before the "pay back of the swap". Would the fire-fighter who got Saturday off have his final pay reduced because he never paid his day off back to the other fire-fighter? Or if the fire-fighter who worked the extra shift then retired or resigned. Would he receive a day's pay for working the Saturday and the Fire-fighter that got the day off have to work a day to pay back the day off he got?

1. No

2. No

3. As there is no formal process it is by an informal mutual agreement that one individual would cover for another, this is recorded as to who is covering to enable monitoring of crewing levels but for cover only. If one individual were to leave there would be no reduction in pay or additional payment made to any individual.