The Marshall County Commissioners discussed changes to the employee handbook with Human Resources Manager Ann Anglin last week.
Vacation time will now be called paid time off. Five days will be given to an employee that has worked the first 90 days on the job to six months with five more days added up to one year. It will be 13 days of paid time off from one to four years of employment, 18 days for those who have worked five to nine years, and those who have worked 10 years or more get 23 days of paid time off.
No days are being taken away from any employees, but it combines vacation and sick days into paid time off. Those days will expire at the end of a hiring anniversary date. If employees do not take their paid time off, then that employee will be paid for that time and it will not be carried over to the next year.
That schedule was unanimously approved to be amended in the handbook.
A policy was also approved for take-home computers and cell phones.
The commissioners approved bereavement leave for the day before, the day of, and the day after a funeral for the death of a family member.
Cybersecurity awareness training will be required with monthly compliance checks to protect Marshall County from data breaches.
A credit card policy was approved for each department head. The card will be checked out of the Auditor’s Office.
Mileage claims or travel-related expenses will need to be turned into the Auditor’s Office within 30 days of the event as approved by the commissioners.
The commissioners also approved the elimination of a new employee’s 90-day probationary pay period with the exception of the Sheriff’s Department. The probationary time frame will still be intact.
Lastly, the commissioners suggested talking to Waggoner, Irwin and Scheele officials about a temporary remote work agreement document.
All of the approved handbook changes will go into effect on January 1. Those changes and more will be relayed to department heads and elected officials at the first of the year.
