Pensacola Today
Gov. Rick Scott signed a landmark pension reforms bill negotiated between Mayor Ashton Hayward and the International Association of Firefighters Local 707, the city’s firefighters’ union.
The local bill, HB 1333, codifies the reforms announced last year by Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward. As Pensacola’s fire pension plan was established by Special Act, changes to the plan needed approved by the Florida Legislature.
The new contract with the firefighters’ union was the third pension reform agreement reached by Hayward, following the significant reforms negotiated with both the general employees’ union and police union in 2012.
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