Saturday, October 30, 2010

The two-jobs firefighters: How a THIRD of striking emergency workers moonlight as undertakers, accountants... and Versace models

The Daily Mail reports:
A third of the striking firefighters who will disrupt this week’s Bonfire Night celebrations have second jobs.

A Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed moonlighting is so widespread that fire chiefs have drawn up an official list of the jobs firefighters are allowed to do.

The register reveals that almost 2,000 of London’s 5,900 firefighters also work in jobs including accountants, undertakers, actors and models. The document also discloses that 107 full-time London firefighters are employed as retained, or part-time, staff with other brigades.


It appears being an overpaid government worker isn't a plainly American situation.