It is an error of the administration which will cost the firefighters of the rescue zone of Hainaut, in Belgium, very dearly. A hundred of them have just learned that they will have to repay an overpayment, report Le Figaro and The voice of the North. In early May, these firefighters received a letter from their superiors telling them that they had been overpaid for…seven years!
“You received 100% of the hour/gross instead of respectively 25% of the hour/gross for services performed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays and 50% of the hour/gross for services performed on Saturdays”, specifies the missive received by a hundred firefighters. Between 2015 and 2021, certain firefighters working in the Hainaut rescue zone, bringing together around ten barracks, including those in Mons, Dour or Quiévrain, would have received up to 20,000 euros too much. Today, their hierarchy asks them to repay these sums in one go.
