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Council adopts clarifying revisions to employee guidelines, adds smoking and arrest procedures
Summary
Council approved clarifying changes to Horry County employee guidelines covering smoking policy inclusion, grievance-procedure clarifications, a narrow FMLA/intermittent-leave clarification, personnel-records wording, reinstatement rules, and a reinstated arrest-related disciplinary section.
Mister Owens reviewed proposed revisions to the county's employee guidelines, describing the package as clarifying rather than introducing broad new policy.
Owens said the smoking policy language is being added to the official guidelines (it was previously an administrator directive), grievance procedures have been clarified to address confusion observed in recent cases, personnel-records review and maintenance wording received minor edits, and there is a narrow clarification about intermittent FMLA leave. He said the county will reintroduce a section related to employee arrest with updated procedures intended to increase fairness for employees and departments. “So our our 1st section, in general guidelines, the biggest addition here is our smoking policy. It is not new. It has been an administrator directive for a number of years,” Owens said.
Council asked questions about designated smoking areas and Owens confirmed the guidelines preserve designated areas and related communications. The resolution to revise the employee guidelines was approved by voice vote.
