A Town employee is prohibited from engaging
in any conduct which could reflect unfavorably upon the Town. Town
employees must avoid any action which might result in or create the
impression of using public office for private gain or giving preferential
treatment to any person.
Upon proper notification to and with the written
permission of the Town Manager, an employee may engage in outside
employment, except that no full-time employee may engage in other
full-time employment outside his/her work for the Town, and no approved
part-time employment shall be in conflict of interest with Town employment.
A.
Preference of Town employment. Any employee who engages
in employment outside of his/her regular working hours shall be subject
to call to perform his/her regular Town duties first.
B.
Injury and illness. The Town shall in no respect be
liable or grant sick leave in case of any injury to an employee while
he/she is engaged in outside employment nor for any occupational illness
attributed to that outside employment.
General policy. All employees of the Town shall
be free and encouraged to exercise their rights as citizens, to cast
their votes and express their opinions on all political subjects.
No full-time or part-time employees of the Town shall solicit any
person to vote at any political primary or election or challenge or
in any manner attempt to influence any voter in a Town election while
on duty.
[Added 6-14-2022[1]]
The Town shall not discriminate or otherwise take any adverse
action against any employees (or applicants) who inquire about, discuss
or disclose information about the terms or conditions of their employment
or about any other employee's employment (such as pay and benefit
information) in a lawful manner, including when exercising any rights
to engage in protected activity. Management shall continue to treat
each employee's pay and benefit information and performance/disciplinary
information as confidential in accordance with applicable legal requirements
and obligations, and each employee, in turn, may do the same to the
extent that they prefer not to share such information with others.
To this end, employees may not disclose information about the terms
and conditions of employment of any other employee (including information
about another employee's pay) when the other employee does not wish
them to do so. Accordingly, employees remain subject to discipline
if they have access to compensation information of other employees
or applicants as part of the essential functions of their job and
they disclose that information to others who do not otherwise have
access to such information, unless the disclosure was made with the
consent of the other employee, or in furtherance of an investigation
by the Town or any outside entity in response to a formal complaint
or charge, or as part of any legal or administrative proceeding/hearing,
or otherwise consistent with the Town's legal duty to furnish such
information.
