are related to employment. An agreement between an employer
and employee on employment is based on a certain performance
of labour. Such an agreement also includes the right/obligation
for a party, in this case the management employee, to serve as
the employer’s representative in dealings with other employees.
Fundamental issues for such agreements include:
- That work is conducted under the leadership and control of
one or more supervisors. In certain cases, however, the de-
gree of control can be low due to the employee being more
knowledgeable of the detailed execution of a particular task.
In this context, one can speak of management by objectives, with
the person in charge specifying the objective of a task and the
employee being given greater or lesser degrees of freedom in
executing the task in a manner that he or she deems suitable. - That working conditions are not necessarily of a perma-
nent nature. No demand for permanency is set as a crite-
rion for employment; entirely temporary work can be con-
sidered to be included in employment. The employee shall
execute tasks that the employer or the employer represen-
tatives (in our case, an incident commanders or fire chiefs)
specifies as work is in progress. It is thus not always a mater
of predefined, restricted tasks, especially in conjunction
with emergency response operations. The tasks are normally
determined based on the current situation. For example, in the
event of a traffic accident, certain types of tasks are performed,
while in the event of a fire in a flat or an accident that
involves large amounts of dangerous goods in a densely popula-
ted urban environment, entirely different tasks are performed.
The way of working, equipment and even the risks associated
with the tasks obviously vary. It is in the nature of the
employment, which in turn is in line with the municipal
structure for providing rescue service’s duties as required
by law and the associated legal stipulations to prevent or
limit injury/damage to people, property and the environment. - That work is normally conducted using the equipment, mach-
inery and implements provided by the employer. This also
requires that the employer has given employees the opportu-
nity, through time, money or other methods, to train in how