The Chicago police union today said officers in nearly a dozen districts and units will try out new schedules in 2009 in a pilot program that hopes to overtime and boost morale.
The program includes some officers working a 10-hour, four-day work week.
Officers had been pushing for changes to work schedules during negotiations with the city on a new contract, now more than a year overdue.
According to the agreement released Friday by the Fraternal Order of Police, officers in various districts and one detective area would try 10-hour workdays for four days a week or other variations.
The department abandoned a pilot program in 2005. If the current plan isn’t working, the city and the union would have to agree on disbanding it, according to union officials.
