Compensation and Benefits
Frustration mounts as small print delays the HEROES Act, and presents a dual standard for provider benefits for the fallen
How the next-generation medic should evaluate potential employers to find an EMS home that will encourage growth
Siarnicki: “Firefighters, EMTs and paramedics continue to answer the call as they do whenever there is a crisis”
Proposition 6 would provide tax breaks for spouses of responders killed in the line of duty, but it only applies if they are not remarried
The pension board told Michael Abramowitz that his asthma developed after Ground Zero cleanup was mainly caused by his weight
The responders will now be eligible for unlimited paid sick leave with full salary coverage
Almost three in four Americans said that emergency medicine services should be covered by insurance
The acknowledgment of the sacrifice given by military veterans began even before the U.S. was a country
Intermediate providers would receive $3,000 more per year and paramedics would receive $6,000 more per year
Families of volunteer firefighters and ambulance personnel who are killed in the line of duty would receive payment of death benefits
The proposed contract shows the top raises will go to paramedics, who have a high turnover rate
Health care workers held a 24-hour strike, leaving hospitals running with emergency staff
Survivors of fallen first responders currently can get a one-time $25,000 payment
The John Mackey Memorial Act extends line-of-duty death benefits to many Kentucky EMS personnel
An EMS agency, facing an applicant shortage, surveyed EMS providers to see if employee-employer compensation expectations matched
The Public Safety Officer’s Benefit Program has left some first responders or their families waiting for years to get payments
The bill will give 100 percent of the monthly salary earned by deceased first responders to spouses for their lifetime
Is it occupational discrimination to exclude private EMS providers from LODD benefits?
All local government EMS providers and volunteers killed after Nov. 1, 2015 are eligible for the benefits
The bill would provide $80,000 for the families of EMS providers who were killed in the line of duty
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