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Council reviews and directs updates to personnel handbook: vacation rollover, lactation, pregnant-worker protections, GPS and tuition rules
Summary
Human resources presented proposed changes to the personnel policy handbook, including shifting vacation-rollover timing, adding federal lactation and pregnant-worker provisions, formalizing GPS use in city vehicles, and tightening tuition‑assistance eligibility; the council directed staff to proceed with the updates.
Human resources staff presented several updates to the Pocatello personnel policy handbook and the City Council gave direction to adopt the changes into a future regular meeting agenda.
Heather Buchanan, human resources director, outlined five principal changes: shifting the vacation rollover date from calendar year to fiscal year (so caps apply after the fiscal-year close), adding language to implement federal nursing‑mother protections (the PUMP Act) and the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, formalizing a GPS policy for city vehicles, and tightening tuition‑assistance eligibility so the program covers degree‑seeking coursework only (not single non‑degree classes or repeat degrees at the…
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