Overtime cap lifted for understaffed, overworked EMTs

Overtime cap lifted for understaffed, overworked EMTs
The city’s ambulance corps is so busy that an overtime cap applying to all other agencies has been lifted and medics are routinely putting in 60 and 70-hour weeks, union officials said. Normally, city workers can’t make more than 40 percent of their salary in overtime. However, with just 4,133 emergency medical technicians and paramedics…