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Board approves employee handbook edits including comp-time limit and punch-in clarification
Summary
Human Resources Director Wayne Bilak presented several edits to the employee handbook — four-year review schedule, comp-time accumulation limit, punch-in/out clarification for nonexempt employees, random-testing wording removals per legal advice, restoration of a job-jeopardy paragraph, and addition to the discipline matrix — and the board approved the handbook as presented.
The Elkhart Board of Public Safety approved revisions to the employee handbook on June 9 after Human Resources Director Wayne Bilak reviewed several targeted edits.
Bilak said the handbook now includes a requirement that it be reviewed every four years, an added sentence limiting how much compensatory time an employee may accumulate before overtime must be paid, and a clarification that nonexempt employees must punch in and out for any time they are not working (including medical appointments and other PTO). He also said legal counsel advised removing two categories from the random-testing section and that a paragraph about the job-jeopardy program that had been omitted was restored.
On discipline, the handbook appendix now includes a line allowing discipline for "offensive comments or conduct" in addition to discriminatory harassment language. Bilak asked board members to sign the signature page after Board of Works approval so the handbook can be distributed.
A board member moved to approve the handbook as presented; the motion passed by voice vote.
