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Board adopts updated employee handbook: telephonic injury reporting, reduced cash-in-lieu and other changes
Summary
The Pewaukee School District board approved annual updates to the employee handbook and addenda, including telephonic workplace-injury reporting per amended board policy, reduced cash-in-lieu to $3,000, updated flexible spending contribution limits, and removal of legacy post-employment-benefit language no longer applicable to current staff.
The board approved the district’s annual employee handbook updates and addenda, which reflect recent policy and benefits changes.
Unidentified Speaker 2 summarized the updates: board policy 5508 was amended, and the handbook now references a telephonic system for reporting workplace injuries instead of paper forms. The handbook addenda update the cash-in-lieu payment to $3,000 and adjust flexible spending account contribution limits. Language referring to a legacy post-employment health-insurance benefit (established in earlier benefit designs and limited to employees who retired before a specified year) was removed because no current staff remain eligible as of 2023.
Regarding the district’s other long-term obligations, Unidentified Speaker 2 said the district’s earlier OPEB (other post-employment benefits) liability once measured just over $11,000,000 and has been reduced to a net liability of just over $2,100,000 following benefit-design changes.
Unidentified Speaker 1 moved to approve the handbook and addenda as presented; the motion was seconded and carried with an abstention recorded by Unidentified Speaker 3. The board did not ask for further changes and directed staff to proceed with implementation.
