City of Milwaukee - File #: 231617

• File #: 231617
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/6/2024
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 3/24/2026
• Effective date: 4/11/2025
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to employee wages, benefits, and regulations.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: CITY EMPLOYEES, WAGES AND BENEFITS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/10/2026	1	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
3/26/2026	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
3/24/2026	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
3/20/2026	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Appearing: Nicole Fleck, DER Chief Aaron Lipski, Fire Dept. This ordinance amends provisions of ch. 350 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances relating to leave and vacation accrual for sworn management employees of the Milwaukee Fire Department whose normal hours of work exceed 40 hours per week. The ordinance aligns benefits for these nonrepresented employees with provisions negotiated in the 2023 to 2026 labor agreement with the Milwaukee Fire Fighters’ Association, Local 215, ensuring consistency for employees promoted from represented firefighter ranks into command staff positions. There was discussion on impact on pensionable compensation, paramedic certification and training, and advancement and equity considerations.	Pass	5:0
3/19/2026	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
2/6/2024	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
231617
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to employee wages, benefits, and regulations.
Section
350-2-2-a-1 am
350-37-15-g am
350-40-15-b-2-c am
350-40-15-b-2-d am
Analysis
This ordinance amends provisions of ch. 350 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances relating to leave and vacation accrual for sworn management employees of the Milwaukee Fire Department whose normal hours of work exceed 40 hours per week. The ordinance aligns benefits for these nonrepresented employees with provisions negotiated in the 2023 to 2026 labor agreement with the Milwaukee Fire Fighters’ Association, Local 215, ensuring consistency for employees promoted from represented firefighter ranks into command staff positions.

Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 350-2-2-a-1 is of the code is amended to read:

350-2. Holidays, General Provisions.

2. FIRE DEPARTMENT.

a.

a-1. Holiday Compensation. >>Effective pay period 1, 2026, an<< [[An]] employee working 24-hour shifts shall receive [[24]] >>96<< hours off per calendar year in lieu of holidays or holiday pay, earned at a rate of [[2]] >>8 << hours per month. This holiday time-off shall be taken in the calendar year in which it was earned.

Part 2. Section 350-37-15-g of the code is amended to read:

350-37. Sick and Disability Leave.

15. SICK LEAVE CONTROL INCENTIVE PROGRAM.

g. Effective trimester 1, 2021, a noncivilian management employee in the fire department, working a 40-hour work week or 53-hour work week, shall be eligible to accrue up to a maximum of 48 hours of special incentive leave into a separate special incentive leave account. >> Effective trimester 1, 2026, a noncivilian management employee in the fire department, working a 53-hour work week shall be eligible to accrue up to a maximum of 144 hours of special incentive leave into a separate special incentive leave account.<< An em...