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Staff Reporter of the Sun
The union that represents city firefighters is charging that the department has rejiggered the formula it uses to calculate medical leave so that it can justify reducing staff on some trucks. The president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, Stephen Cassidy, alleged yesterday that the FDNY had inflated sick-leave numbers so that they would exceed 7.5% - the marker that allows the commissioner to decrease the number of firefighters to four from five on some engine company trucks.
The commissioner of the Fire Department, Nicholas Scoppetta, denied the allegations. He told the council's Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice that the department had been using the same calculation since 1988 and that it was simply entering sick-leave information into the computerized database faster because of an electronic lag in keeping up with schedule swaps between firefighters.
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