An employee may be suspended without pay for reasons of misconduct, negligence, inefficiency, disloyalty, insubordination, repeated unauthorized absence or other offenses.
A department head may recommend to the Committee Chairperson having supervision of the department, if any, and to the Mayor that an employee be suspended from the service for cause at any time. Such suspension recommendation shall be brought to the attention of the employee in writing and shall specify the cause and number of days the employee should be suspended. If the Mayor and the Committee approves, suspension shall become effective immediately and notice thereof in writing given to the employee.
Whenever an employee is recommended for suspension, he/she may, within 10 days after receiving notice of the suspension recommendation from his/her department head, request, in writing, a review of the suspension recommendation by the Borough Council. The Borough Council shall review such suspension at a public hearing in the same manner as in dismissal hearings and make its determination, which shall be final. If the Borough Council finds such suspension unwarranted, the employee shall be reinstated without any loss of privileges or benefits and receive any pay withheld.