Any employee who wishes to resign from the service
in good standing shall give his/her department head at least two weeks'
prior written notice of his/her resignation. The resignation shall
become effective upon acceptance by the Mayor and Council, except
as otherwise provided by statute. An employee failing to give at least
two weeks' notice and obtain the approval of the Borough Council shall
forfeit his/her accrued vacation time.
A.
Any employee who does not submit his/her resignation
in compliance with the provisions in this chapter or whose resignation
is not approved by the department head and the Mayor or who is absent
from work for a period of three or more days without notifying his/her
department head of a reason for his/her absence permitted by this
chapter and of his/her intention to return to work may be considered
as having resigned without notice and shall be considered not to be
in good standing. If an employee is absent for three or more days
without notifying his/her department head of the reason, but it is
determined that he/she was incapable of making that notification because
of incapacity or other emergency circumstances, that would not constitute
a resignation.
B.
Any employee who fails to return to his/her duties
within three days after the expiration date of an authorized leave
period without notifying his/her department head of a reason for his/her
absence permitted by this chapter shall be considered as having resigned
without notice and not in good standing, provided that the failure
to give notice was not caused by unavoidable circumstances.
C.
An employee who leaves the service without resignation
pursuant to this chapter shall have the fact entered in his/her personal
record. If the situation warrants it, he/she may be deprived of the
right to apply for reemployment in the service at a future date, and
he/she may be denied the privilege of a satisfactory reference from
the officials of the Borough.
It will be the policy of the Borough Council
to consider with favor the application of any former employee who
resigned with notice and whose work record was satisfactory during
his/her former employment in the service, but he/she shall lose any
seniority. However, the decision as to whether such a former employee
shall be reemployed is a matter within the unreviewable discretion
of the governing body.[1]
