Cfa defends foreign firefighters high pay but says no policy changes needed
Cfa defends foreign firefighters high pay but says no policy changes needed
FEMA has denied all allegations of pay discrimination, saying the fire service only requires foreign firefighter양산출장마사지s to get up to the same pay as local employees.
FEMA spokesman Michael Rago said he would not reveal the salaries of former or future employees of the Fire Fighter Office, but he said there was a policy change in 2013 that gave the agency $7,000 per year for each of its fire fighters.
In that year, those firefighters had been paid $14.25 per hour, which is $2,500 less than what firefighters from most of the other 30 fire departments that worked for the U.S. government in fiscal year 2012.
According to federal figures, it costs the U.S. government to provide fire protection to about 30 million people. Fire fighters are responsible for ensuring that such a massive system works properly.
Rago told Fox News “The only thing we can guarantee is that we will do everything we can in order to meet the needs of those people that serve and have served the nation in this capacity.”
Rago said the current pay rules have been in place for 16 years.
“There was never a specific policy change regarding our current pay levels in response to the [2012] fire service financial crisis,” he said.
He said a fire department has to have a minimum pay level and the highest paid fireman to meet that requirement, but “if they have a need, we will make sure that we pay them. We don’t think this is excessive compensation, but we will make sure we make the best money we can and provide a good education to our members.”
He said the pay issue is not related to fire fighting costs, but rather to training. Rago said the Fire Fighter Office works closely with all other fire departments, including those of the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure the safety and security of the U.S. population.
In an August골목 interview, Rago said the U.S. is currently on pace to spend $400 million on the effort to combat the devastating wildfires that have devastated a l온라인 바카라arge portion of the American West.
The department’s fire department alone accounted for about $35 million of that, he said, saying the U.S. government spends about half of that amount.
The department has asked Congress to provide emergency funding to assist with the response, he said.
FoxNews.com’s Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Abby Phillip