[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Concord 2-10-2005. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Part-time appointed and elected employees receive
no sick time benefits.
B.
Full-time appointed employees receive six days per
year, with a maximum of 160 days accumulative. These are to begin
accruing one month after the date of full-time employment and shall
accrue at the rate of 1/2 day a month.
A.
Part-time appointed and elected employees receive
no personal leave benefits.
A.
You may absent yourself from work to observe your
religious holidays. If available, a full day of unused vacation may
be utilized for this purpose; otherwise the time off is without compensation.
To accommodate the Town you must notify your supervisor at least 10
business days in advance.
B.
Should a holiday occur during your scheduled vacation,
you are permitted an additional day of vacation.
C.
To qualify for holiday compensation, you must work
the scheduled eight-hour workday immediately prior to and after said
holiday. Only excused absences will be considered exceptions to this
policy.
D.
You are not eligible to receive holiday pay when you
are on leave of absence.
The Town of Concord participates in the New
York State Retirement System. All full-time employees must become
a member upon employment with the Town of Concord. Part-time employees
must be given the opportunity to sign with the retirement system if
they so choose.
A.
Effective January 1, 1996, newly appointed part-time
employees will receive no medical benefits from the Town of Concord.
However, if a part-time employee wishes, he or she may join the Town's
medical provider and receive hospitalization at his/her own expense.
B.
Full-time appointed and elected employees will receive
single, two-person or family coverage. Full-time employees will have
the option to enroll in Community Blue with the Town paying a portion
of the required premium when due. The percent of required premium
when due paid by the insured is determined by the legislative body
of the Town of Concord.
C.
Any employee who retires from the Town will be given
the opportunity to stay with his/her present hospitalization policy
at his or her own expense.
The governing board of a municipal corporation
may provide that municipal employees, including those of the municipal
public library, be paid for earned and credited vacations prior to
the commencement thereof. 27 Op. State Compt. 131, 1971.
Prior to retirement, employees of the Town of
Concord will have the option of either having their unused sick leave
(not exceeding 160 days) applied as additional service credit on a
calendar basis for the New York State Retirement System (41J) or have
the unused sick leave applied to the cost of their health care premium,
i.e., 160 days of accumulated sick leave equals 160 days of health
care coverage.
A.
Overtime shall be paid at 1 1/2 times the employee's
regular hourly rate for work performed in excess of 40 hours in the
same week, Sunday through Saturday, or for hours worked in excess
of eight hours on any given day during the workweek, with the exception
of the time which the Highway Department employees are on a ten-hour
day, four-day workweek, the overtime would be paid for any time over
the 10 hours on any given day.
B.
At the request of any employees eligible for overtime
pay, the employer at its sole discretion may provide time off in lieu
of cash payment for overtime, allowed at the rate of 1 1/2 hours
for each hour worked over the normal number of hours in his scheduled
work week. Accumulation of compensatory time is in the sole discretion
of the employee with the following restrictions:
A.
This policy is being set to secure a fair and even
policy to increase salaries for all Town employees. Let this policy
state that benefits will not be included when figuring anyone's salary.
B.
Each year at budget time, the department head of all
office staffs will be given a budget request form. At this time the
head official of each office will place on this form the salary which
they request for themselves and other employees in their office. Each
department head should, at this time, revaluate the work load and
responsibilities of each employee in their department. These figures
will be placed in the tentative budget. At the Town Board's budget
workshop each department head will be requested to come at a specific
time and go over their department's budget. At this time any discussion
regarding salary or a particular budget line will be discussed and
finalized between the Town Board and the department head. At this
point the preliminary budget will be in place.
C.
If, after the public hearing for the budget, there
is a problem with an office's budget, the Town Board will contact
the department head and this problem will be discussed and resolved,
if needed, at another budget workshop.
A.
In the event of an employee being injured on the job,
the employee must report the injury immediately to her/his workplace
supervisor. It shall be the workplace supervisor's responsibility
to see that all of the required information for the incident report,
such as date, time, nature of injury, whether medical assistance was
given, etc., is turned over to the supervisor's secretary within 24
hours of the injury. It is the responsibility of the supervisor's
secretary to fill out the proper reports and submit them to the workman's
compensation insurance carrier.
B.
Should the injured employee require time off from
the job as a result of the accident, she/he may be placed on sick
leave. It is the responsibility of the injured employee to keep the
supervisor's office informed about what treatment is being taken,
and an estimate of necessary time off as a result of her/his injury
on a weekly basis. The employee may remain on sick leave and receive
her/his regular wages for up to five working days. At the end of the
five-working-day period, the Town will submit the case to its workman's
compensation insurance carrier for all further wage and insurance
claims and payments.
A.
Part-time appointed and elected employees receive
no paid vacation time.
B.
All vacation time is time earned. The individual employee's
anniversary date of being hired will determine the amount of vacation
time earned. Example: when an employee begins his/her second year
of service, the employee will be entitled to two weeks paid vacation.
The following schedule will apply:
|
During Years
|
Vacation
| |
|---|---|---|
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2 to 5
|
2 weeks
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|
6 to 10
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3 weeks
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|
11 or more
|
4 weeks
|
C.
Each department head is responsible for maintaining
a current vacation schedule for employees in their department. Vacation
time is accumulative to a maximum of 30 days. Any unused vacation
time over the 30 days at the end of the year is forfeited time to
the employee.
The Town of Concord highway employees will receive
a paid lunch break under the following conditions: Effective November
30, 1998, only those full-time highway employees (year-round) working
the night shift (from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.) during the winter season
will receive a paid lunch break consisting of 1/2 hour.
Effective November 30, 1998, full-time permanent
employees of the Town of Concord, New York, Highway Department working
the 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. shift will receive an additional $0.20
an hour. This shift differential will be effective for the winter
season only, as designated by the Superintendent of Highways. Payment
for time worked in excess of 40 hours per week shall be calculated
for these employees based upon base pay plus the $0.20 an hour shift
differential at time plus 1/2. For example, an employee earning $10
per hour regularly working the 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. shift shall
earn $10.20 per hour for all hours worked up to 40 hours and $15.30
per hour in excess of 40 hours.
A.
Purpose and rationale. The goal of the Town of Concord's
wage and salary compensation policies is to provide equal pay for
equal work and promote equity and harmony within the work force. The
Town recognizes the enhanced value of experienced, trained and knowledgeable
employees. In order to acknowledge and compensate the loyalty, accumulation
of experience and skills of long-time employees, the Town of Concord
establishes the Longevity Recognition Policy.
B.
Eligibility.
(1)
All current full-time employees are eligible.
(2)
Those individuals who are now employed less than full-time,
12 months per year, are eligible.
(3)
The employee shall have completed five years of such
qualifying employment to be eligible for longevity awards.
(4)
The qualifying time of employment includes an individual's
qualifying part-time and full-time employment, retroactive to their
most recent hiring date.
(5)
For purposes of computing awards for prior employment
credit, part-time employment credit will be computed as 50% of full-time
employment credit.
(6)
An employee is eligible to receive one longevity award
regardless of the number of positions held or for which credit has
been accrued.
(7)
Time away from employment on workmen's compensation
in excess of one year will not be credited as accrued time; however,
such absence while on workmen's compensation will not constitute a
discontinuance of employment.
C.
Payment.
(1)
Longevity awards shall be awarded yearly as appropriate.
The award is determined according to the schedule of completed years
of employment. Employees are not entitled to receive pro-rata or partial
longevity awards upon retirement or on termination of employment or
for any other reason, except as follows: in the event of death, in
service, of an employee, the longevity award as specified in the Longevity
Schedule[1] for the year in which the death occurs shall be made to
the employee's estate.
[1]
Editor's Note: The Longevity Schedule is on
file in the Clerk's office.
(2)
Longevity awards will be made annually according to
the following schedule:
(b)
Commencing upon the completion of the fifth
year of full-time qualifying employment, the longevity recognition
award shall be:
|
Years
|
Award
| |
|
5 and 6
|
$100
| |
|
7 and 8
|
$120
| |
|
9 and 10
|
$140
| |
|
11 and 12
|
$160
| |
|
13 and 14
|
$180
| |
|
15 and 16
|
$200
| |
|
17 and 18
|
$220
| |
|
19 and 20
|
$240
| |
|
21 and 22
|
$260
| |
|
23 and 24
|
$280
| |
|
25 and 26
|
$300
| |
|
27 and 28
|
$320
| |
|
29 and 30
|
$340
| |
|
31 and 32
|
$360
| |
|
33 and 34
|
$380
|
(c)
Commencing upon the completion of the fifth
year of part-time qualifying employment, the longevity recognition
award shall be 50% of the full-time award.
(3)
For purposes of accruing longevity credit employees
shall receive credit for all years of qualifying continuous and uninterrupted
employment with the Town with the exception of anyone who was or may
be required by New York State Retirement System law or regulation
to resign their position in order to qualify for New York State Retirement
System(s) benefits. In such cases, if the employee shall have resumed
employment with the Town within three days of the conclusion of the
minimum period of unemployed time required by the New York State Retirement
System law or regulation such time does not constitute an interruption
of employment.
(4)
An employee who voluntarily leaves or is discharged
for cause during the eligibility period will forfeit any longevity
award for the current year.
A.
Only regular full-time employees are eligible for
paid funeral leave upon the death of an immediate family member. An
employee shall be entitled to take up to three days paid leave between
the death and the funeral without charge to sick leave upon the death
of any member of his/her immediate family in order to attend the funeral.
B.
Immediate family shall be the following: current spouse;
child; parents; employee's grandparents; grandchild; brother; sister;
current parent-in-law; current stepparent; or current stepchild.
C.
An employee shall be entitled to one day paid leave
upon the death of the following in order to attend the funeral: brother-in-law,
sister-in-law, uncle, aunt, nieces and nephews.
The Town of Concord Town Board has the right
to set the salary of all new employees.
All new employees, full- or part-time, have
a probationary period of 12 months.
[Amended 6-9-2005 by L.L. No. 2-2005]
A.
The Town Board of the Town of Concord recommends and
endorses the fact that all elected or appointed officers shall take
advantage of training for their respective offices provided by the
town and county training school of the State of New York for the purpose
of improving the administration of municipal affairs in the Town of
Concord.
B.
All requests to attend any conference or training
which requires traveling of over 75 miles in each direction shall
require Town Board approval. The first priority should be local training.
Overnight lodging shall also, on an individual basis, become subject
to prior Town Board approval.
[Added 6-9-2005 by L.L. No. 2-2005]
Employees shall be allowed to answer fire calls
during daytime hours, to be paid and not have to make up the time
taken.
