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Amend the Personnel Ordinance to Add Time Limited to Categories of Town Positions and Related Employee Benefits.
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Staff:
Department:
Cliff Turner, Director
Human Resources
Amy Oland, Director
Business Management
Overview:
The Town Ordinance allows for two categories of positions, regular and temporary. We recommend amending the Ordinance to add positions that are defined as time limited. Time limited positions would be full-time positions created to hire employees to work for up to 36 months on special projects with temporary funding from a variety of sources such as grants, Town funds, State funds, etc.), for up to, but not to exceed more than 36 months.
These employees would have the same benefits, rights, and privileges as full-time employees.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council amend the Town Code to add Time Limited positions to categories of position types and related employee benefits.
Additional Background:
* The State of North Carolina has time limited positions that have an established period of funding and need for under 3 years.
* To competitively recruit and hire employees for time limited positions, we propose to provide full-time benefits for these positions.
* Time limited positions would be different than the Town's temporary positions, which are program support, seasonal and internships. Temporary positions work either less than 20 hours a week, for a defined period like summer or a semester or for a specific project period. Also, due to NC Local Government Retirement regulations, a temporary employee cannot work longer than 1000 hours in a 12 -month period without enrolling in the retirement system.
* In addition, Affordable Care Act regulations require that we enroll employees on our Health Insurance once they have worked 12 months in a full -time capacity.
Fiscal Impact/Resources:
There is no financial impact associated with amending the Town Ordinance.
Attachments:
* Ordinance
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE PERSONN...
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