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Glenn Heights council reviews rewrite of employee personnel policy; city proposes six-week parental leave and police-academy support
Summary
Council held the first reading of an updated employee personnel policy proposing six weeks of paid parental leave (per calendar year), tuition support for staff attending the police academy and edits to holiday and leave language; second reading scheduled for the first July meeting.
The Glenn Heights City Council held the first reading of Ordinance O-08-25, a comprehensive rewrite of the city's employee personnel policy that would replace policies not substantially updated for more than a decade. Janice Porter Braithwaite, the city's human-resources director, presented key proposals including a six-week paid parental leave provision, tuition and direct-cost payments for employees attending a police academy, and clarifications to holiday and jury-duty leave rules.
Porter Braithwaite described the parental-leave proposal as paid leave “following the birth of an employee's child or the…
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