Increased Pay and Better Conditions for Wildland Firefighters
This act aims to improve working conditions and compensation for federal wildland firefighters. It introduces special base pay rates and incident response premium pay, as well as paid rest and recuperation leave after deployments. This will provide wildland firefighters with more stable and higher earnings, potentially encouraging more individuals to pursue this challenging and dangerous profession.
Key points
Increased base pay for federal wildland firefighters, ranging from 1.5% to 42% depending on their grade.
Introduction of incident response premium pay for each day of deployment to a qualifying incident outside their duty station or in a designated field camp.
Provision of paid rest and recuperation leave following the completion of wildland firefighting deployments.
Status:
Introduced
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