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City manager previews broad personnel manual updates including bereavement, sick‑leave changes
Summary
Riverside city manager presented a first look at proposed updates to the personnel manual that would change bereavement and vacation accruals, adjust sick‑leave payout on retirement, add paid parental leave and tighten several administrative processes; council asked for financial context and follow‑up language.
The City Manager previewed a package of proposed updates to Riverside’s personnel manual at the Sept. 2 City Council meeting, saying the changes are intended to simplify existing language, align non‑bargaining benefits with collective bargaining agreements and improve employee recruitment and retention.
The proposed changes include increasing paid leave for bereavement (funeral leave) for immediate family members from three to five days, adding one day for relatives not in the immediate family, aligning some non‑bargaining vacation accruals with existing CWA (collective bargaining) tiers, clarifying how part‑time service counts toward full‑time accruals (using a 2,080‑hour year to compute full‑time equivalents), and changing the sick‑leave retirement payout formula to match bargaining units (from a…
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