County Proposes Personnel Manual Changes
The Glasscock County Commissioners’ Court proposed several changes to the county’s personnel manual in a special session Jan. 18. If the revised manual is formally approved and put into effect, among the changes will be that employees who are paid by the hour will earn one and a half times their usual pay for overtime, and compensatory time will no longer be used to offset overtime hours.
Road crew employees’ regular hours will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with 30 minutes for lunch. Commissioners stressed that the lunch break is to be taken at the job site. Other elected officials may set different hours for their departments.
In the past, the road crew has been given 11 holidays each year, while the courthouse was given 14. Commissioner Marck Schafer said he thought the road crew should have the same number of holidays as any other employee, and no one disagreed. The court set the following road crew holidays for 2005: Dec. 30, 2005 or Jan. 2, 2006, Mar. 25 and 28, May 30, July 4, Sept. 5, Nov. 11, Nov. 24 and 25, Dec. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.
Courthouse holidays for 2005 are: Dec. 30, 2005 or Jan. 2, 2006, Jan. 17, Feb 21, Mar. 25 and 28, May 30, July 4, Sept. 5, Oct. 10, Nov. 11, Nov. 24 and 25, Dec. 26 and 27.
Tax Office holidays for 2005 were unavailable at publication time and may differ from courthouse holidays.
In addition to the 14 paid holidays, county employees also get 10 days paid vacation and 5 sick days (sick days can be carried over) each year.
The proposed personnel manual has been sent to an attorney for review before being officially adopted.