GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 38.001 POLICY STATEMENT; PURPOSE.

   (A)   The County Board and the Labor/Policy Committee have researched all previous County Board policies pertaining to personnel. The County Board has collected individual personnel policy statements from elected officials and department heads to develop a county personnel policy manual for all county employees. It is the County Board’s responsibility to establish a personnel policy for all county employees, while being accountable to the taxpayers of the county for the most effective and efficient operation of county government. The provisions of these policies should be considered to be advisory only as to elected department heads.

   (B)   The policies set forth in this chapter are designed to:

      (1)   Foster good working relationships and provide uniform personnel policies, opportunities for advancement and consideration of employees’ needs and desires;

      (2)   Conduct all operations in an ethical and proper manner;

      (3)   Ensure dependable service to and by employees of the county and to the public with which it deals; and

      (4)   All proposed policy changes will be sent to the department head/elected official for review prior to full Board adoption at the following month’s regular meeting.

(Ord. passed 11-28-2011)

§ 38.002 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   BOARD. The County Board of DeWitt County, Illinois.

   DEPARTMENT HEAD. An employee of the county who is under contract to the County Board.

   ELECTED DEPARTMENT HEAD. An official who has been elected by the people of the county.

   FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE. A person working the regularly scheduled number of hours is considered a FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE and is eligible for all county benefits. Temporary and per diem employees are not considered FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES.

   PART-TIME EMPLOYEE. A person working less than the department regularly scheduled number of hours for the assigned department is considered a PART-TIME EMPLOYEE and is not eligible for county benefits unless otherwise stated. Department heads may be PART-TIME EMPLOYEES; however, temporary employees are not considered PART-TIME EMPLOYEES.

   TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE. A person employed for a period of less than three months or for a specific task is considered a TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE and is not eligible for county benefits, unless otherwise stated. TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES may work the regularly scheduled number of hours for a department (full-time) or less than the regularly scheduled number of hours for a department (part-time). Student interns may be considered TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES and employed up to one year.

(Ord. passed 11-28-2011)

§ 38.003 NEPOTISM.

   Members of the same immediate family whose qualifications rank each of them first for the positions under consideration may be employed, either on a full-time basis, part-time basis or temporary basis, so long as neither family member is immediately responsible for the decision to hire, the supervision, direction, evaluation or salary recommendation of the other.

(Ord. passed 11-28-2011)

SELECTION AND HIRING