Contractual Surrender?

There's a win posted directly above this post, but this would be a definite loss:

• Why did the FOP agree to allow the department to require a minimum 14 days to submit time off instead of 10 days for personals and 7 days for time? What did we get in return?

This would increase the ability of the Department to screw Officers with short notice cancellations. Why permit this? There's no good reason we can think of.

Back in the day when they had the regularly cancelled RDO deployments, we knew of a number of Officers who never worked a single date. The Department released the schedule a month or so in advance and these crafty bastards would drop Personal Days in advance - the day before and the day after their RDO's and say they were going to be out of town, unable to return for the deployment.

The schedule would be posted, they wouldn't be on it, and the day before their scheduled Personal Day, they'd pull the requests, saying plans had changed. 

It worked - every single time. It worked so well, we did it for a year when we decided the overtime wasn't worth what we had to miss. And we sold those Personal Days back at the end of the year, too.