Compensation and Benefits
The acknowledgment of the sacrifice given by military veterans began even before the U.S. was a country
An EMS agency, facing an applicant shortage, surveyed EMS providers to see if employee-employer compensation expectations matched
Is it occupational discrimination to exclude private EMS providers from LODD benefits?
From five-alarm fires to pay parity battles, Bonsignore brings calm credibility to one of the toughest jobs in public safety
Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore on recognizing EMS as an essential service with the funding and career pathways to match
Lillian Bonsignore draws on her 30-plus-year EMS career to spotlight the financial realities facing first responders
From a ticking salary counter to fourth-wall confessions, this EMS road movie isn’t just another Hollywood take. It’s a love letter, a warning and a mirror.
MMR shares their journey to adopt a pet who provides unconditional support
With 17 paramedic vacancies, the county turns to sign-on bonuses, but will it solve the real problem?
City leaders seek millions in funding to improve EMS wages
Communities are learning the hard way that underfunding EMS has real consequences.
Supporting the professional development goals of your practitioners will set them up for a rewarding EMS career
Paramedics: don’t settle for a living wage. Instead, be audacious and demand a thriving wage for your lifesaving career of community service
Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill that adds EMTs and paramedics to existing hazardous duty time and retirement benefits
EMS1’s EMS trends state-of-the-industry survey provides targets for reducing stress, staffing challenges and leadership shortfalls
Somerset city officials are told employees are leaving for better pay and less calls
Lancaster County commissioners hope municipalities do the same to support first responders
Broward County officials plan to provide quick help for mortgage and rent payments, or funeral expenses before other benefits kick in
Collective bargaining is being promoted as a recruitment, retention benefit for Portsmouth
The bill presumes disabling or fatal infectious diseases were suffered in the line of duty as a result of injury due to uncapped needles
First responders in Kansas hope the Missouri bill will encourage their own legislators to pass a similar PTSD benefits bill
The Uniformed EMS Officers Union says the “Supervising Emergency Medical Service Specialist” position carries lieutenant responsibilities with less pay
Supporters of the new law believe it will improve recruitment and retention of volunteers
The law applies to those who got sick with the virus from March 9, 2020, through June 30, 2021 and assumes they contracted it because of work
A council member was inspired by FF-medic Lt. Mark Quick who stopped to help at a car crash and was severely hurt
They showed their support for a bipartisan measure that would benefit them
Retired public safety workers and teachers plan to sue again, citing the Medicare Advantage Plan’s pre-authorization requirements
Under the measure, it would be automatically assumed that working conditions directly led to first responders contracting COVID-19 and that it led to a disability
26 unions voted against the move to remove traditional Medicare as an option
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