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Board reviews multiple personnel-policy updates; members pull workload policy from consent agenda over on-site wording
Summary
District staff proposed revisions to a dozen personnel policies and a rescission; board members requested more time on a workload policy after concern that removing a line might permit remote work for staff.
The Barrow County School System presented a broad set of personnel-policy updates June 24, and the board asked staff to remove one workload item from the consent agenda for further review.
Human Resources Director Dr. Kurtz outlined revisions to a dozen personnel policies and the recommended rescission of a pay-for-performance policy. Changes include clarifying complaint and grievance procedures, updating a drug-free workplace policy to address alcohol and prescription medication safekeeping, adding random drug-and-alcohol testing for employees authorized to carry weapons, expanding tobacco prohibitions to all…
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