Mayor Rahm Emanuel does not plan to appeal an arbitrator’s order to rehire four firefighters who were fired for padding mileage reports, but continued his tough talk on employee misconduct.
“I give no quarter to anyone who does anything wrong or violates the public trust,” Emanuel said at an unrelated news conference Friday. “When it comes to a culture and atmosphere, we condone no violation of the public trust. None. Zero tolerance.”
Unless an arbitrator rules against your Inspector General though. Then "zero tolerance" is out the window. And how about this?
- It was the second time that Benn ordered the same four firefighters be returned to work after they were fired for misconduct. Four years ago, the city fired them for accepting and not reporting pay from private companies to do weekend pump inspections at high rises, but Benn ruled that suspensions were more appropriate.
These reinstated guys were the same four people fired years ago? So they just figured out a way to get the city to "compensate" them for the loss of their weekend pay doing pump inspections?