Bill > S1819

This bill protects the current retirement classification of dispatchers and dispatch retirees in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Specifically, it preserves the Group 2 classification for employees of towns within the Barnstable county retirement system who work as police or fire dispatcher operators, managers, or supervisors, and who were hired on or before January 1, 2023. The bill also ensures that members who have already retired from the Barnstable county retirement system with a Group 2 classification as a police, fire, or emergency medical dispatch operator, manager, or supervisor will retain their current classification. In the Massachusetts retirement system, Group 2 classification typically provides certain enhanced retirement benefits for workers in more physically demanding or hazardous occupations. The bill prevents any changes to these workers' retirement classifications unless specifically enhanced by future statute, effectively protecting their current retirement status. The legislation would take effect immediately upon its passage.

Labor and Employment

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1819