Civil Service Bulletin 11.10C

DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
Bureau of Human Resources

February 27, 1991

CIVIL SERVICE BULLETIN 11.10C

TO:	All Agency/Department Heads/Personnel Officers
SUBJECT:	Emergency Work Cancellation or Delay or Early Release

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I. POLICY

A. Normal Workday (7:30 a.m., to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday)

When severe weather or other emergency conditions warrant, the Governor, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Administration, may delay or cancel a normal workday or may authorize early release from work on a regional or statewide basis.

Essential services (maintenance of security, heating, communications systems, etc.) and direct-care and custody will be maintained in all instances.

If a normal workday is cancelled, delayed or ended early because of storm or emergency conditions, affected employees shall be provided paid administrative leave for all cancelled hours.

Even though a normal workday may be cancelled or delayed or ended early, some affected employees may be required to report work or to stay at work beyond an announced release time to perform essential services or office business. Such employees who are required to report work or remain at work shall be credited with compensatory time off for all hours worked that are treated as administrative leave for employees who are not required to report or remain at work.

Affected employees who are required to work beyond their normal workday as the result of this policy shall receive pay or compensatory time off, but not both, in accordance with the provisions of collective bargaining agreements and Civil Service Rules.

Employees at work may request to use accrued leave credits in order to leave work early because of storm or emergency conditions. An employee who has been authorized leave for this reason will not be eligible for administrative leave should the workday be cancelled after leave has been approved.

Employees who are unable to report to work as scheduled because of storm or emergency conditions will be charged compensatory time or vacation time or be placed on unpaid leave as appropriate.

Employees who are late in reporting for work as scheduled because of storm or emergency conditions will be treated in accordance with agency policy for lateness.

B. Shift (5:00 p.m. - 7:30 a.m.) Holiday and Weekend Schedules

Decisions with respect to storm or emergency conditions outside of the normal workday will be made by agency heads, and it will be the responsibility of agency heads to determine staffing requirements in order to maintain essential and public services, and to determine whether or not work outside of the normal workday shall be maintained on a full-staff or skeleton crew basis.

C. Travel Prohibitions

If a municipality or a portion of a municipality should officially close to traffic and this closing prevents employees from reporting to work or staying at work within the closed area, the employees affected should comply with the local prohibition on travel. Each situation of this kind shall be reviewed in order to determine the leave action to be taken.

II. ADMINISTRATION

Internal procedures for the administration of this policy shall be developed and implemented by the Commissioner of Administration. A copy of these procedures is attached to this Civil Service Bulletin.

This bulletin supersedes Personnel Bulletin 11.10 issued on December 14, 1982, 11.10A issued on February 8, 1983, and 11.10B revised on December 8, 1987.

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Nancy J. Kenniston, Director
BUREAU OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Attachment
Correction to CS 11.10C