PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Employee Relations Board has ordered the city of Portland to pay a former firefighter about $103,000 for three years of lost disability payments.
The city cut off the payments and fired Tom Hurley in 2007 when he refused to return to work.
The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/t5ID4D ) Hurley did return to the Fire Bureau last year in a building inspector’s job. He’ll be eligible to retire in 2013.
Hurley hasn’t worked as a firefighter in about 18 years. He collected disability payments for knee and back injuries. The disability fund sent him to cooking school in 2000, and he operated restaurants in Portland and Seattle until they failed in early 2010.
