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Murphy staff outlines five personnel policy changes including donated‑leave and cell‑phone rules
Summary
Staff presented five proposed personnel policy amendments: codifying an annual evaluation after one year for promoted employees, reverting overtime calculation to hours worked, changing donated‑leave limits from per‑year to per‑case, clarifying military leave for 48‑hour fire shifts, and limiting legacy $70 phone allowances to hires before 10/01/2024.
Staff walked council through five proposed personnel policy amendments meant to align written rules with current practice and to improve consistency and fiscal predictability. The items include: (1) adding language to require annual evaluations at the one‑year mark for promoted or laterally transferred employees to make them eligible for merit increases (contingent on budget), (2) reverting overtime calculations to count only actual hours worked, (3) changing donated‑leave limits from a per‑year 40‑hour cap to a 40‑hour limit per qualifying case for employees on FMLA, (4) clarifying that one 48‑hour fire shift counts as one workday for military leave pay purposes, and (5) specifying that employees hired before 10/01/2024 remain eligible for a $70/month cell phone allowance and hires after that date receive city phones.
On donated leave, the staff member (Staff member, S7) explained the per‑case change addresses situations where long‑tenured employees with large sick‑leave balances can donate across multiple qualifying FMLA instances; staff clarified donated leave is available only for FMLA cases. On the cell phone policy, staff pointed out the change merely documents current practice and said the changes will return for formal council approval on March 3 with an intended effective date of March 7 if approved.
Council members asked clarifying questions about which employees would be affected (police, fire, public works) and whether mandated overtime categories would be exempt from the recalculation; staff confirmed mandated public‑safety overtime remains unaffected.
