[1974 Code §§ 18-1—18-8; Ord. No. 83-11; Ord. No. 88-69; Ord. No. 89-41; Ord. No. 2017-65]
The Longevity Pay Program is hereby abolished unless specifically
provided for in a Collective Bargaining Agreement.
[1974 Code § 18-9]
a.Â
Officers and employees shall receive such compensation as shall be
provided by Ordinance.
b.Â
Whenever the Council shall establish compensation for an office,
employment or position within a range or ranges prescribed by Ordinance,
the Mayor shall fix the compensation for the office or the employee
within the range or ranges at such specific amount as the Mayor may,
in his discretion, determine upon consideration of seniority, work
performance and relative efficiency of the respective officers and
employees.
c.Â
All expenses of officers and employees actually incurred in the performance
of their official duties shall be reimbursed.
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Note: Ordinances setting forth salaries or compensation
are not codified but saved from repeal in Section 4 of the Adopting
Ordinance printed at the beginning of this Code.
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[1974 Code § 18-10]
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34.1, all municipal officials and
employees who are required to be bonded pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34
are permitted to secure blanket bond coverage with the exception of
the Municipal Tax Collectors and the Comptroller. The blanket bond
coverage shall be filed with the Township Clerk. The individual bond
for the Tax Collectors and the Comptroller shall be similarly filed
with the Township Clerk.
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Note: For statutory provisions relating to the
surety bonds of municipal officers and employees, see N.J.S.A. 40A:5-34
et seq.
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[1974 Code § 18-11]
a.Â
No officer or employee, elected or appointed, in the Township shall:
1.Â
Be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract with the Township
or in the compensation for work done or for materials or supplies
furnished to the Township or to any contractor or other person furnishing
the same to the Township; nor shall be participate in any profits
of such contractor or other person or receive any compensation, commission,
gift or other reward for his services except the salary or fees established
by law or by ordinance or resolution of the governing body.
2.Â
Accept or solicit anything of value as consideration for or in connection
with the discharge of his official duties other than the fee or compensation
prescribed pursuant to law.
b.Â
Any officer or employee referred to in paragraph a of this subsection
who violates any provision of this subsection or of any statute or
ordinance relating to conflict of interest shall be deemed guilty
of misconduct in office and liable to removal from office therefor.
Any officer or employee who shall knowingly permit any provision of
this subsection to be violated by any of his subordinates shall also
be guilty of misconduct in office and liable to removal therefor.
[1974 Code § 18-12]
No Township officer or employee, elective or appointive, shall:
a.Â
Directly or indirectly use, or attempt to use, his office position
or employment, to secure or obtain any unwarranted, preferential,
favorite, discriminatory or unlawful rights, benefits, advantages
or privileges for himself or any others.
b.Â
Vote for the adoption or defeat of any legislation or for the payment
or nonpayment of any indebtedness owing, or allegedly owing by the
Township in which he has a direct or indirect personal pecuniary or
other private interest.
c.Â
Recommend, or lobby for, the adoption or defeat of any legislation,
or for the institution or defense of any legal or quasi-legal action
whatever, in which he has or may have, a direct or indirect personal,
pecuniary or other private interest.
d.Â
Approve or disapprove, or in any wise recommend the payment of, any
bill, voucher or indebtedness owed or allegedly owed by the Township
in which he has a direct or indirect personal, pecuniary or private
interest.
e.Â
Accept other employment, or professional retainers, or the promise
thereof, that might reasonably conflict with the performance of his
official duties, or that might reasonably tend to impair his independent
or impartial judgment or action in the exercise or performance of
his official duties.
[1974 Code § 18-13]
The Business Administrator may establish an Employee Grievance
Committee, consisting of five (5) officers and employees of the Township,
to hear, review and adjust informally such grievances as any employee
or department head may present to it. Such hearing, review and adjustment
shall be in accord with Article I, Section 19, of the New Jersey Constitution
(1947).
[1974 Code § 18-14; Ord. #83-36]
As of the effective date of this subsection, all new employees
employed by the Township and the Woodbridge Library Board shall be
residents of the Township on the date of their employment and shall
continue to be residents during the term of their employment. The
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to persons who are presently
nonresident employees of the Library or Township employees previously
exempt, and further shall not apply to department directors as the
same are established by the Administrative Code of the Township of
Woodbridge and all persons who are exempt from the residency requirements
set forth herein by State legislation or Federal law.
a.Â
In the event that a municipal position cannot be filled after due
diligence by officials in securing a person or persons to fill the
post by a resident of the Township and upon notification by the Mayor
or Business Administrator of the Township's inability to employ a
resident, the Municipal Council shall adopt a resolution approving
the nonresidence of the employee.
b.Â
In addition to those employees hereinabove excluded or exempted from
the provisions of this subsection are all persons employed in the
Township of Woodbridge prior to the effective date of Ordinance No.
76-25, dated July 6, 1976.
c.Â
In the event that a present nonresident employee terminates his employment
with the Township after the effective date of this subsection and
then desires to seek Township employment, the person must satisfy
the residence requirements herein.
[Ord. #2015-20]
a.Â
Waivers of the Township's residency policy shall not be granted except
in the event of compelling or extraordinary circumstances, not the
result of the employee's voluntary action. Financial hardship shall
NOT under any circumstances be considered a compelling or extraordinary
circumstance.
b.Â
Any employee seeking a waiver of the Township's residency policy
shall submit such request in writing to the Division of Personnel
in a form prescribed by the Division of Personnel which shall include
the following:
1.Â
The proposed location of the new residence.
2.Â
Whether the waiver is requested permanently or for a limited period
of time. If the waiver is requested for a limited period, the employee
shall include the estimated date on which the employee seeks to have
the temporary waiver terminate.
3.Â
The compelling or extraordinary reason that forms the basis of the
request.
4.Â
Any supporting documentation associated with the employee's request.
5.Â
Such other items or materials as the Division of Personnel shall
deem necessary.
c.Â
The failure to submit all required information shall result in the
denial of the waiver request. Confidentiality shall not be a basis
for refusing to provide information or materials to support the request.
d.Â
Any denial of an employee's request for a residency waiver by the
Division of Personnel shall be in writing and provided to the employee
within a reasonable time following the submission of a completed residency
waiver request.
e.Â
Any employee requesting a residency waiver shall have the right within
ten (10) calendar days of the date of the denial, to appeal the denial
to the Business Administrator. The appeal request shall be in writing,
unless otherwise waived by the Business Administrator, and shall set
forth such factors as the employee believes should have been considered
or should have been considered more favorably by the Division of Personnel
at the time of the denial.
f.Â
The Business Administrator shall review the appeal request and advise
the employee in writing of his decision, within ten (10) calendar
days of the receipt of the appeal. If a decision is not forthcoming
from the Business Administrator within ten (10) days, the appeal shall
be deemed to have been denied.
g.Â
All appeal decisions by the Business Administrator shall be final.
[Ord. #94-79 Preamble]
Certain employers doing work within the Township wish to use
the services of off-duty Township police officers for certain police
related services; and the Township wishes to charge these employers
utilizing off-duty police officers a specific dollar amount per hour
to cover the costs of the off-duty system and administering the off-duty
system.
[Ord. #94-79 § 1; Ord. #2015-28]
The extra duty rates paid by an outside employer to the Township
for off-duty Township police services shall be in conformance with
the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) currently on file in the
Offices of Personnel and Municipal Clerk.
[Ord. #94-15 Preamble; Ord. #96-06 Preamble]
N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23 allows Woodbridge Township, as a municipal
employer, to subsidize the cost of health benefits for specified groups
of the Township's employees who have retired. This section is required
in order to allow the Township to subsidize the cost of coverage for
the statutorily specified employees. The Township has already been
involved in litigation venued in Middlesex County Chancery Division,
Docket No. C-312-92, requiring the Township to cease its prior practice
of subsidizing retirees who have not complied with statutory criteria
set forth by N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23. This is the Township's prescription
of uniform conditions to subsidize the cost of insurance coverage
to qualified retirees, based upon the recommendation of the Administration
to the Municipal Council. The uniform conditions set forth below are
intended to be an equitable remedy for Township retirees and is consistent
with the practice employed by the New Jersey State Health Benefit
System.
[Ord. #94-80 § 6; Ord. #96-06 §§ 1—5;
Ord. #13-61 § 10]
Pursuant to the authority of N.J.S.A. 40A:10-23, the Township
hereby sets uniform conditions governing the payment of insurance
premiums after retirement of Township's employees as follows:
a.Â
Full Payment. Woodbridge Township shall pay one hundred (100%) percent
of the cost of Health Insurance for any person who retires as a Woodbridge
Township employee and who has either (i) twenty-five (25) years of
service with Woodbridge Township as the employer; or (ii) thirty (30)
years of service in either the Public Employee Retirement System or
the Police and Fire Retirement System of which not less than the final
ten (10) years of service were as a Woodbridge Township employee.
b.Â
Fifteen (15) Years of Service and Sixty-two (62) Years of Age. The
Township is to pay sixty (60%) percent of the cost of Health Insurance
Coverage for any Woodbridge Township's employee who has retired from
Woodbridge Township prior to June 30, 1996 and who had reached the
age of sixty-two (62) or older at retirement with at least fifteen
(15) years of service with Woodbridge Township, the employer. This
provision is to be phased in over a twelve (12) month period according
to uniform guidelines set forth by the Administration of the Township
of Woodbridge.
c.Â
Disability Pension. The Township is to pay one hundred (100%) percent
of the cost of coverage for Woodbridge Township employees who retire
from the Township on a New Jersey State Recognized Disability Pension,
with such pension authorized prior to June 30, 1996.
As to such pensions authorized after June 30, 1996, the Township
is to pay sixty (60%) percent of the cost of coverage.
d.Â
Labor Agreements. Consistent with the Township's labor agreements,
the Township will allow any retiree having served a minimum of ten
(10) years with the Township as the employer the right to participate
at the employees' own full cost in the Township's Health Benefit Program.
e.Â
Dependents/Spouse. The provisions of this section will also apply
to those dependents including spouses, who are dependents of a Township
retiring employee at the time of the employee's retirement from Woodbridge
Township.
[Ord. #93-10 Preamble]
N.J.S.A. 63:1-20.5 (hereinafter the "Statute") directs the Superintendent
of State Police to adopt rules and regulations which establish and
implement the process by which the State Bureau of Identification
may provide criminal history record information to local government
agencies in noncriminal matters. Pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure
Act," N.J.S.A. 52:14B-1 et seq., the Superintendent of State Police
adopted rules, regulations and fees for the processing of criminal
background checks for noncriminal matters; said rules, regulations
and fees being codified in N.J.A.C. 13:59-1.1 et seq. (hereinafter
the "Regulations"). The Mayor and Municipal Council have determined
it to be in the best interests of the citizens of the Township of
Woodbridge to perform criminal record background checks on prospective
employees of the Township and those persons seeking a position with
any emergency response or service entity within the Township in order
to thoroughly ascertain their suitability for the employment or position.
[Ord. #93-10 § 1]
As used in this section:
Shall mean to instruct, communicate with, store data in,
gain entry into, retrieve data from, disseminate, or otherwise make
use of any computer, computer system or computer network.
Shall mean any agency authorized by a Federal or State statute,
rule or regulations, executive order, administrative code or local
ordinance to access Criminal History Record Information maintained
as part of a computerized database of the New Jersey Criminal Justice
Information System for noncriminal justice purposes, including licensing
and/or employment purposes.
Shall mean information collected by criminal justice agencies
regarding individuals, and stored in the computerized database of
the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information System, consisting of
identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, indictments or
other formal criminal charges and any dispositions arising therefrom,
including sentencing, correctional supervision and release.
Shall mean (1) the courts of the State of New Jersey and
(2) a government agency of the State of New Jersey or any sub-unit
thereof which performs functions pertaining to the administration
of criminal justice pursuant to a statute, ordinance or regulation,
and which allocates a substantial portion of its budget to the administration
of criminal justice.
Shall mean any duly authorized fire department, first aid,
rescue or emergency squad, whether volunteer or paid.
Shall mean that cost established by law for processing all
criminal history record requests for authorized agencies for noncriminal
justice purposes, including licensing and/or employment.
Shall mean any noncriminal justice purpose including licensing
and/or employment, for which applicant fingerprints or name search
requests are submitted by authorized agencies as required or permitted
by a Federal or State Statute, rule or regulation, executive order,
administrative code provision or local ordinance to the State Bureau
of Identification for the processing and obtaining of Criminal History
Record Information background checks.
Shall mean (1) the process whereby the State Bureau of Identification,
at the request of an authorized agency, accesses the Criminal History
Record Database of the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information System
to compare a set of classifiable fingerprints or to conduct a name
search request to determine if New Jersey Criminal History Record
Information exists for the person identified by the authorized agency;
and, (2) the furnishing by the State Bureau of Identification to an
authorized agency of all records or convictions in a New Jersey State
Court and all records of pending arrests and/or charges for violations
of New Jersey laws which the New Jersey Criminal Justice Information
System indicates as having no dispositions, regardless of their age,
unless such records have been expunged pursuant to law.
Shall mean the State Bureau of Identification, a bureau within
the Division of State Police.
[Ord. #93-10 § 2]
The Township of Woodbridge shall hereinafter be deemed an "authorized
agency" for purposes of and pursuant to the Statute and the Regulations
in order that it may request the State Bureau of Identification to
access the Criminal History Records Database of the New Jersey Criminal
Justice Information System in order to compare fingerprints or to
conduct a name search, in order to determine if criminal history record
information exists for a prospective employee of the Township or a
prospective member of an emergency response or service entity within
the Township.
[Ord. #93-10 §§ 3—10]
a.Â
In furtherance of the authority contained in the Statute and the
Regulations, each new applicant for employment by the Township of
Woodbridge and those individuals seeking a position with any emergency
response or service entity within the Township shall be subject to
an application procedure, which shall include, but not be limited
to, requiring the applicant to provide all requested information and
to submit to fingerprinting in order that the Township may perform
a Criminal History Record Background Check as described herein and
in the Statute and Regulations referenced above.
b.Â
Additionally, the Township may make inquiry into references and/or
past employers of prospective employees and require such other reasonable
information of the applicant(s) necessary to thoroughly assess the
qualifications and suitability of a prospective employee for employment
by the Township or membership in any emergency response entity or
service within the Township.
c.Â
All requests for criminal history background checks of applicants
hereinafter shall be submitted to the Police Department of the Township
of Woodbridge for processing pursuant to and in accordance with the
Regulations.
d.Â
The fees associated with the processing of fingerprint identification
checks and name search checks shall not be collected from applicants,
but shall be paid by and on behalf of the Township of Woodbridge.
e.Â
The information accessed pursuant to the Statute and the Regulations,
will be used solely for the authorized purpose for which it was obtained,
and Criminal History Record Information furnished by the State Bureau
of Identification shall not be disseminated to unauthorized persons
within agencies or disseminated outside of the agencies authorized
to receive the record.
f.Â
In the event Criminal History Record Information is to be used in
order to disqualify an applicant with respect to licensing and/or
employment, the applicant shall be provided with an opportunity to
complete and/or challenge the accuracy of any information contained
in the Criminal History Record. In this regard, an applicant shall
be afforded a reasonable period of time to correct and/or complete
the record and the applicant shall not be presumed guilty of any pending
charge or arrest for which there is no final disposition indicated
on the record.
g.Â
The full text of the Statute and Regulations are incorporated herein
by reference as if set forth fully.
h.Â
Nothing contained in this section, nor the implementation and/or
use of the powers herein granted, shall operate to impose or impute
any liability on the Township of Woodbridge arising out of the Township's
employment application procedures described herein.
[Ord. #13-35]
a.Â
Applicants for paid positions for delivering emergency medical services
are required to submit to a background investigation conducted by
the Woodbridge Police Department and be fingerprinted by the live
scan fingerprinting company under contract with the New Jersey State
Police. Applicants should contract the Woodbridge Police Department,
Identification Bureau for procedures, instruction and applicable fees.
b.Â
Applicants for non-paid (volunteer) positions for delivering emergency
medical services are required to submit to a background investigation
conducted by the Woodbridge Police Department. Live scan fingerprinting
will be provided by the Woodbridge Police Department, Identification
Bureau at no charge. Applicants should contact the Woodbridge Police
Department, Identification Bureau for procedures and instructions.
c.Â
All personnel (paid or non-paid) for delivering emergency medical
services are required every three (3) years thereafter to submit to
another background investigation by using the New Jersey State Police.
Name Check Only SBI212B Form, personnel should contact the Woodbridge
Police Department, Identification Bureau for procedures, instructions
and applicable fees.
d.Â
The Woodbridge Police Department may consider the following factors
in determining whether a criminal record adversely relates to an applicant's
ability to provide emergency medical service: (1) the nature and seriousness
of the crime; (2) the circumstances under which the crime occurred;
(3) the date of the crime and age of the applicant when the crime
was committed; (4) whether the crime was an isolated event; and (5)
evidence of rehabilitation.
[Ord. No. 2018-57]
a.Â
For any infractions of written policy and/or the employee handbook
of the Township of Woodbridge, the following procedures will be followed:
First Violation: A verbal warning with written documentation;
Second Violation: A written warning to be signed by the employee;
Third Violation: A written warning to be signed by the employee
and a maximum suspension of three (3) days;
Fourth Violation: A written warning to be signed by the employee
and a minimum suspension of five (5) days with the possibility of
termination;
Fifth Violation: A written warning resulting in termination.
b.Â
This policy does not override any of the Township's practices which
result in immediate expulsion.
