Council Moves to Subsidize Pay of City Employees Sent to Bosnia
The Los Angeles City Council approved a first step Wednesday in supplementing the pay of city employees called into active military duty in Bosnia.
The unanimous vote instructs the city attorney to draw up an ordinance that will allow the city to make up the difference between employee salaries and military pay for a period of up to 180 days. Similar subsidies were approved in 1991 for reservists employed by the city who were called to duty in the Persian Gulf War.
Councilman Joel Wachs, who introduced the latest motion, said the subsidy would allow those in military reserve programs, most of whom are police officers, to fulfill their military obligations and keep pace with financial obligations. Included in the proposal is a provision for extending health benefits to on-duty reservists.
Wachs estimated that about 400 employee-reservists could be called to duty.
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