Requesting Shift Reassignment

Section 1 - ADMINISTRATIVE

PURPOSE:

To set guidelines and requirements for members to request a reassignment from one shift to another.

PROCEDURE:

The following requirements are necessary for members to request a shift change.

• Shift reassignment, as a result of a member’s request, will be only performed when there is an equal change of identical ranking members. Furthermore, the request must not negatively affect the operations of the department.
• The shift member requesting the shift reassignment must first receive permission from the member with whom he/she wishes to change. This must be in a written memorandum.
• The requesting member must then obtain written approvals from the Lieutenant of the requestor's shift and the Lieutenant of the shift to which the requestor wishes to move.
• After obtaining the aforementioned documents, the requestor must then receive final approval in writing from both Battalion Chiefs and Deputy Fire Chief. The Deputy Fire Chief will schedule the shift reassignment in a way to affect the least inconvenience to both shifts and to avoid the need for over-time spending.
  

If the shift reassignment is requested due to a vacancy on another shift, only steps two (Lieutenant approval) and three (Battalion Chief and Deputy Fire Chief approval) will be necessary.