Common use of Length of Deployment Clause in Contracts

Length of Deployment. A. The Employer retains sole authority to dispatch employees to fires even when dispatched to inter-agency fires. B. If not released from wildfire suppression duty by the tenth (10th) consecutive day following deployment away from their duty station, employees will be scheduled for rest and recuperation and unavailable for work assignments for twenty-four (24) hours. This rest and recuperation period is intended to occur no later than the fourteenth (14th) consecutive calendar day after the initial deployment. If not released from wildfire suppression duty by the twenty-first (21st) consecutive day following deployment away from the duty station, the employee will be scheduled for an additional rest and recuperation period. This additional rest and recuperation period is intended to occur no later than the twenty-second (22nd) consecutive calendar day after the initial deployment. C. Up to forty-eight (48) hours of travel to and up to forty-eight (48) hours of travel from the fire incident are excluded in calculating the consecutive days of deployment discussed above. During a rest and recuperation period, the employee will be paid eight (8) hours miscellaneous leave [ten