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Pierce County adopts personnel-code overhaul after failed amendments and public comment
Summary
After three proposed council amendments failed, the Pierce County Council adopted Ordinance O2025-539 revising Title 3 personnel provisions to add chapters on workplace conduct and discipline, expand sick-leave uses (including immigration proceedings), and update definitions; council vote was 6–1.
Pierce County’s council adopted Ordinance O2025-539 on Nov. 4, 2025, updating portions of Title 3 of the Pierce County Code covering personnel definitions, workplace conduct, discipline, domestic-violence leave, and sick-leave uses. The clerk recorded six ayes and one nay; Council member Morel voted no.
Chief counsel Susan Long summarized the ordinance as a package of changes that repeal the existing chapter on diversity, equity and inclusion and replace it with a new chapter titled "welcoming workplace culture and conduct," add a new chapter on discipline, revise multiple definitions (including moving or consolidating…
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