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City approves revised employee handbook, renames 'vacation' as 'personal time' and eliminates comp time
Summary
The board approved handbook edits aligning leave language with Mississippi statute (renaming vacation to "personal time"), removed comp time in favor of overtime, added paid bereavement leave, and capped payable leave at 30 days at separation.
The city attorney reviewed a revised employee handbook and told the board the largest substantive changes were aligning terminology with Mississippi statute and removing comp time. "The statute does not really differentiate between vacation and personal time ... I just changed it to personal," the attorney said, explaining the change is meant to avoid statutory conflicts. The attorney said references to comp time were removed and replaced with "straight overtime."
The revised handbook adds paid bereavement leave (three days) and limits payout at separation to a maximum of 30 days payable to the employee (excess credited for retirement/service calculations). The board moved, seconded and approved the revised handbook and directed staff to provide copies to employees for signature and to hold departmental briefings so staff understand the changes.
