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Northborough personnel board approves package of bylaw updates, including new vacation rules and $100 travel per diem
Summary
The Town of Northborough Personnel Board approved a set of personnel bylaw updates on April 14, 2025, that add Juneteenth as a paid holiday, modernize vacation accruals (including a special leave account for employees hired before 07/01/2006), decouple personal days from sick leave, set a $100-per-day travel meal cap, and adopt modest pay adjustments including a 2% COLA.
The Town of Northborough Personnel Board approved a package of updates to its personnel bylaws during a remote meeting on April 14, 2025, aimed at modernizing holidays, vacation and sick‑leave rules and updating travel reimbursement and pay schedules.
Diane Wacko, a town staff member who led the review, said the changes include adding Juneteenth to the paid-holiday list, renaming Washington’s Birthday as Presidents’ Day and replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Wacko said the vacation‑accrual language was revised to match recently negotiated union contracts and to address a retirement payout problem for employees hired before 07/01/2006: the town will place those pre‑2006 accrued balances into a special leave account, give affected employees three years to use those balances, and move…
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