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Council adopts suite of employee policy updates covering harassment, firearms, holidays and bereavement
Summary
The Common Council approved multiple personnel policy changes—including a new policy addressing harassment/molestation of minors and vulnerable adults, a retirement firearm policy for public safety, holiday calendar updates and bereavement leave clarifications—each on unanimous votes
The Columbia City Common Council on Tuesday approved a package of personnel policy updates covering harassment/molestation, retirement firearm retention for public safety officers, holiday schedules and bereavement leave. Each policy was adopted unanimously after brief presentations and committee review.
Beth, a staff member, presented the policy titled “policy against harassment / molestation of minors and vulnerable adults,” saying the policy was requested by the city’s workers’ compensation carrier and was intended to apply primarily to parks staff but to include…
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