The Village of Roselle Board of Trustees met recently. | Roselle Main Street Merchants/Facebook
The Village of Roselle Board of Trustees met recently. | Roselle Main Street Merchants/Facebook
The Village of Roselle Board of Trustees met in late November to discuss updates and changes to the employee handbook.
"Most of the changes are just to reflect current organizational structure, continue to be compliant with state and other federal laws, [and] to clean up language," Jason Bielawski, village administrator, said at the meeting, which was posted on YouTube. "We realized over the years [that] we made significant changes in 2012 and a little before that related to employee benefits and stuff like that, that was approved by the board as a coming out of the recession and a modifying of benefits. We're now in an interesting area where it's tough to know what benefits apply to what employee group depending on their date of hire."
Bielawski spoke with the board about changes that were deemed necessary and appropriate. One change was to add anti-nepotism language for the hiring process.
He said what has been added has been the village standard for years, but it was never put into writing in the handbook.
"This is what I believe aligns with our organizational values but [we are] just making it clear, and it is something we would enforce through the hiring process," he said.
The Board of Trustees discussed the policy for language regarding relationships within the workplace, as well. They included a clause about direct authority in positions between two people who are in a relationship. They discussed whether or not they should strengthen some of the language. The board will have oversight of all issues.
"We recently went through our annual harassment training, and we felt it was appropriate to make it clearer to the organization what their expectations were around that," Bielawski said.
The board members also discussed paid time off. The average amount of paid time off is 13 days off for nearby municipalities. Roselle had 11, which included nine holidays and two personal days. It was suggested that another personal day should be added to bring the total to 12. Language was also cleaned up regarding time off for police personnel and whether they are or are not members of a union.
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