UntitledEMPLOYEES INCLEMENT WEATHER & DISASTER POLICY
1. Dismissal by the Town Supervisor:
a) Affected Employees: all Town employees are subject
to the provisions of this paragraph, with the
exception of those delivering emergency snow removal
services or those performing essential and/or
emergency services. Such employees, because of the
nature of their jobs, shall be expected to continue
working and shall receive normal compensation.
b) Employees who are dismissed during their work shift
shall be paid for the balance of such shift without
charge to benefit leave time. (Employees may stay at
work site at their own discretion and shall receive
no additional compensation.)
2. Time Lost:
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In those instances where an employee utilizes
accumulated, unused vacation and personal time, or is
absent without charge to benefit leave time as a result of
inclement weather, such employee shall be allowed to make
up the time lost, in that week, and the succeeding three
weeks, provided work within title is available. -
3. Employees should only be permitted to be absent
without charge to benefit leave time if no appropriate
benefit leave time is available to charge.
4. An employee will be recredited with benefit leave time
previously charged when it is made up.
5. An employee failing to make up an absence where
benefit leave time wasenot charged will either be docked
or have appropriate, available benefit leave time charged.
6. Employees who were absent or left work early due to
illness, charging absence to sick leave time, may not make
up the time lost.
7. Employees who were on prescheduled benefit leave time
may not make up the time lost due to inclement weather,
nor will they be credited with time from the point where
other employees were dismissed.
8. Departments shall maintain a record of all employees
delivering essential and/or emergency services and shall
ensure that these employees are aware of this
responsibility.
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INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY
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PROCEDURES
1. The Supervisor will notify Town'Board members and
Department Heads of dismissal and authorize department
heads to grant employee requests to arrive late, leave
early or be absent.
2. In those departments which must maintain services
which are not snow removal services, essential and/or
emergency services, or constitutionally mandated, the
department head shall arrange.for staffing as follows:
a) First with management and/or confidential employees;
b) If management and/or confidential employees are
insufficient, then with volunteers, employees capable (in
the eyes of the department head) of performing the work;
or
c) If (a) and (b) do not provide a sufficient work force,
then the department head may require employees to stay on
the basis of least seniority within job title.
Any employee who works under provisions (b) or (c) above
and all employees providing snow removal, essential and/or
emergency services shall receive normal compensation or
overtime, whichever is applicable.