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Chilton County commissioners debate authority and pay for ad hoc early holiday closures
Summary
Commissioners discussed a proposed policy allowing the chairman to authorize early closures before holidays, focusing on whether hourly (nonexempt) employees should be paid and how to limit abuse. No final policy was adopted; discussion was continued for future action.
Chilton County commissioners spent the longest portion of their Aug. 12 meeting debating a draft policy that would let the chairman authorize early closures for all or part of county departments prior to state, federal or county-declared holidays.
The issue mattered because commissioners disagreed on whether hourly (nonexempt) employees should be paid for hours when a department closes early and how to prevent the policy from becoming an open-ended benefit.
Attorney Ben Golden summarized two options in the draft: one in which nonexempt employees are paid only for hours actually worked and may use accrued paid time off (PTO) to cover unworked hours, and a second in which nonexempt employees would…
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