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La Verne staff present broad employee handbook revisions; board discusses comp time, remote work and leave donations
Summary
City staff reviewed proposed handbook changes including expanded bereavement definitions, higher comp-time caps for hourly staff and firefighters, a hybrid/remote-work section, and an employee-to-employee leave donation option; the revision was presented as Resolution 2025-01 for board review.
City human-resources staff presented a set of proposed changes to the La Verne employee handbook at the Jan. 30 Board of Mayor and Aldermen workshop, highlighting new language on bereavement, comp time, remote work, leave donations and updates to discrimination and retaliation policies.
Andrew Patton, a city staff member who led the presentation, said the revisions were developed with input from department directors and are being offered as Resolution 2025-01 to amend the employee handbook. "In our definition section for immediate family, we made some changes to include parents-in-law, step-grandparents, stepbrother and stepsister," Patton said. He added that the handbook removes the word "current" from parents…
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