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Commission adopts COVID-19 personnel policies, including 14 sick days and administrative-leave rules through Dec. 31
Summary
Commissioners combined and approved three resolutions establishing a COVID-19 policy period (retroactive to March 1 through Dec. 31, 2020), an administrative-leave policy and a COVID-specific sick-leave policy that grants 14 COVID sick days to full-time employees.
The Claiborne County Commission on May 18 adopted a package of resolutions establishing countywide COVID-19 personnel policies for the period March 1 through Dec. 31, 2020.
Resolutions 2020-044, 2020-045 and 2020-046 together set an umbrella COVID period (retroactive to March 1, 2020), adopt administrative-leave procedures allowing supervisors to schedule paid administrative leave days where employees remain available for work, and create a COVID-19 sick-leave policy granting full-time employees 14 COVID-specific sick days in addition to regular sick leave. Commissioners amended the package to include the Dec. 31, 2020 end date before approving it by aye vote.
The administrative-leave resolution specifies that employees on administrative leave must be available by phone during normal work hours, able to return to the workplace within two hours of a supervisor's request, and willing to work from home when assigned. The sick-leave policy states COVID-19 sick days are to be used for quarantine or inability to work due to a positive test and that these days carry no cash value and expire at the end of the policy period.
Commissioner Charlton Vass sponsored the umbrella resolution; Commissioner Whitt Shuford offered an amendment to add the period-ending date. No roll-call vote was recorded in the minutes for the combined package; the package passed by recorded aye vote.
