Members of the local firefighters union will have more time to use their vacation time that has piled up due to the pandemic.
The Wilton Fire Commission voted last week to allow members of Local 2233 to have until Aug. 31 to use 36 hours of vacation time that was set to expire in June.
Due to the increased demand for firefighters to be on-call over the last year, the union asked the town to consider rolling over its vacation hours from the fiscal year 2021 into FY 2022.
“One of the things I hope you would take into consideration, is that with the overtime coming up and with the amount of work everyone has been doing and not taking vacations, there are going to be a lot of vacations being taken,” Local 2233 representative Dave Chaloux said during last week’s fire commission meetings, referencing the time period near the end of the fiscal year set to end in June.