(A) Although Woodford County has chosen to include an appeals process in its personnel policies relating to employee termination, it is specifically not the Fiscal Court’s intention to create any proprietary right or employment situation that compromises its at-will employment status. As expressly stated in this chapter’s Statement of Purpose in § 36.001, nothing in these policies is intended to create a contract of employment.
(B) (1) A regular full-time employee who has been notified of intent to dismiss him or her has the right to appear personally or with counsel before the Fiscal Court to respond to the letter of intent to dismiss.
(2) The written request to respond must be made within 5 working days of the employee’s receipt of the letter of intent to dismiss, excluding the day it was received. If the employee does not submit a request within 5 working days, it will be deemed that the employee has waived his or her right to respond.
(3) The right to respond meeting shall be at the next scheduled court meeting if the request has been made at least 5 days prior to the Fiscal Court meeting. If the request has not been made at least 5 days prior to the next Fiscal Court meeting, the employee shall meet with the Fiscal Court at the subsequent scheduled court meeting.
(4) The meeting is informal. It gives the employee the opportunity to respond to charges contained in the letter of notice of intent to dismiss.
(5) Within 5 working days, excluding the day of the meeting, the Fiscal Court shall uphold, alter, modify or rescind the intended dismissal. The employee will be notified, in writing, of the Fiscal Court’s decision.
(6) The action shall be recorded in the employee’s personnel file.
(Order 10, passed 5-27-1998; Am. Order 1, passed 2-24-2009)