Recently President Gillotte and Chief Osby met with the Auditor-Controller (A-C) to voice their frustration and displeasure with the handling of our pay and demanded something be done to take corrective actions.

The e-HR system, managed by the (A-C), has had difficulties in supporting the unique schedules and bonuses of many of our employees.  This has resulted in numerous payroll errors. 

A Task Force made up of representatives from the A-C, LACFD Business Operations, 1014, LACOLA (Lifeguards), and the Fire Department’s Association of Chiefs (AOC) has been implemented to work towards resolving the on-going payroll issues.  The Task Force will continue to meet on a regular weekly basis to develop a short-term plan that will identify payroll solutions that can be immediately implemented; enhancements to exception reports that will highlight payroll discrepancies prior to payroll processing; and modifications to the paystub to improve clarity.  The Task Force will also collaborate on long-term goals that encompass strategic modifications to the e-HR system specific to the LACFD and development of innovative strategies that will integrate with e-HR.

As always if you have payroll issues please let us know so we can assist to get them resolved as well as bring those issues forward to the Task Force to resolve them permanently.

On January 6, 2016 ballots were sent to 156 members of 603/604 bargaining units for a ratification to the terms of their contract.

Those ballots were returned and counted by the elections company and the following are the results:

100 ballots returned
87 YES
13 NO

We will now notify the CEO's office that we have reached an affirmative ratification vote and the CEO will then prepare a report for the Board of Supervisors meeting so they too can approve the contract.

Direction will then be given to the Auditor-Controller to implement the new contract with the cost of living increases being effective December 1, 2015.

We will keep you updated on the time line of events.

Last summer our camps personnel were notified by mail from payroll of an overpayment error. 1014 demanded that there be a full accounting of what happened, why it happened and what will be done going forward to keep it from happening. We randomly looked at the accounting of the overpayments for some of the 93 members, both active and retired.

Payroll is now moving forward with sending out letters to those affected members informing them of their options as well as an accounting of the complete overpayments.

If you should have any questions please let us know.