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Personnel committee approves updates to travel, per diem, vaping and phone-use policies
Summary
The committee approved multiple revisions to the employee policy manual: streamlining approval for budgeted out-of-state travel to department heads, linking per diems to the federal GSA schedule, prorating lump-sum payments for part-time employees, adding vaping to the tobacco policy, and updating phone-use language.
The City of Manitowoc Personnel Committee approved several edits to the employee policy manual intended to streamline travel approvals and update technology and tobacco rules.
Staff (Jesse) told the committee the changes would allow budgeted out-of-state travel to be approved by the relevant department head rather than coming to an oversight committee, while non-budgeted out-of-state travel would still require committee review. "We are looking to change the process…
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