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Council amends employee handbook, consolidates leave into revised PTO bank
Summary
Council approved a comprehensive update to the employee handbook including consolidation of personal, sick and birthday leave into a PTO bank and an amendment to increase annual PTO; the amended motion raised maximum annual PTO to the equivalent of 104 hours with adjusted carryover rules.
The North Manchester Town Council approved Resolution No. 7 to update the town employee handbook and revise paid time-off (PTO) policies.
Staff explained the existing handbook dated from 20013 and contains outdated provisions. The proposed overhaul consolidates separate personal, sick and birthday allowances into a single PTO bank. "Currently total all those are 13 ones to reduce that to 10," a staff speaker explained when describing the baseline conversion before the council amended the proposal.
During deliberation the motion was amended to add three additional days, establishing an annual PTO total described in discussion as increasing from an 80-hour baseline to 104 hours per year with a maximum carryover increase from 40 hours in certain tiers. The council discussed special provisions for fire department personnel and tiered payout rules at separation (examples included scaled payout percentages tied to years of service).
The amended handbook revisions were seconded and approved unanimously. Staff indicated the final handbook draft included those changes and will be distributed as adopted.
