A job description including qualifications shall be maintained for each
position pursuant to New Jersey Department of Personnel guidelines. The department
head will make copies available upon request.
A.
All employees are expected to be at work and ready to
assume their duties at the beginning of the scheduled workday. Full-time employees
of the Borough shall be required to work five days per week, Monday through
Friday. Lateness and absence will be tolerated only in emergencies or when
the supervisor gives prior approval. All absences must be reported to the
supervisor prior to the start of the normal workday. The normal working hours
for administrative departments are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The working hours
for other departments are established by departmental procedures and bargaining
unit agreements.
B.
The department head of each department shall schedule
the lunch period of each employee, provided that the lunch period shall not
exceed one hour, and further provided that the schedule shall be arranged
in a manner that will require every office of the Borough to be opened to
the public continually from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The New Jersey Legislature has declared that in all governmental buildings
the rights of nonsmokers to breathe clean air supersedes the rights of smokers.
In accordance with state law, the Borough of East Rutherford has adopted a
smoke-free policy for all buildings. Borough facilities shall be smoke-free,
and no employee or visitor will be permitted to smoke anywhere in Borough
buildings. Employees are permitted to smoke only outside Borough buildings
and such locations as not to allow the reentry of smoke into building entrances.
This policy shall be strictly enforced and any employee found in violation
will be subject to disciplinary action.
Borough of East Rutherford telephones are for official business and
employees may make a personal call only to inform their family of unexpected
overtime. Charges for all other personal calls must be reimbursed to the municipality.
The use of handheld cell phones while driving Borough of East Rutherford vehicles
or while driving on Borough of East Rutherford business is prohibited.
A.
Borough of East Rutherford email, voicemail and the Internet
are for official business, and use for non-business purposes is prohibited.
All email, voicemail and Internet messages are official documents subject
to the provisions of the Access to Public Records Act.
B.
The Borough of East Rutherford reserves the right to
monitor, obtain, review and disclose all email, voicemail and Internet messages
for lawful and legitimate reasons. By using Borough email, voicemail and the
Internet, each user agrees that the municipality has unrestricted access and
the right to disclose all information communicated or stored on the email,
voicemail and the Internet for any security, health, employment or other legitimate
business reasons. Legitimate reasons also include systems maintenance, message
routing, retrieval of business information, troubleshooting hardware and software
problems, preventing system misuse, protecting confidential proprietary information,
insuring compliance with software license policies and complying with legal
and regulatory requests for information.
The bulletin boards located in the Borough of East Rutherford administrative
building and other facilities are intended for official notices regarding
policies, procedures, meetings and special events. Only personnel authorized
by the Mayor and Council may post, remove, or alter any notice.
