Human Resources Administration Manual
Chapter 2 - General Personnel Rules and Practices

II-O.1 - Inclement Weather and Emergency Situations
Topics - Inclement Weather and Emergency Situations

O. INCLEMENT WEATHER AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

Employees are to assume that County offices are open each regular workday unless it is specifically announced otherwise.

In extraordinary circumstances, the County Manager may officially close County Offices as a result of inclement weather or an emergency situation. When a decision is made to officially close County offices for a full or partial regular workday, a salaried employee who is either required or has been authorized by the Department Head, or his designee, to work in an area of the County that remains in operation will receive compensation for that day plus premium pay equal to one half his annualized hourly rate times the number of hours worked on the day the County was officially closed. In addition, he will receive up to eight hours of time to be used at a later date or eight hours of additional pay. A salaried employee scheduled, but who did not work, will be compensated for up to eight hours for the time the offices were closed.

There may be times in which the County Manager does not deem conditions severe enough to warrant officially closing County offices, even though individual departments may elect to curtail certain services. In this situation, any employee who does not report to work as scheduled must

• use unused holiday leave, annual leave, or leave
  without pay, respectively,
  or
• work with his supervisor to develop a schedule to
  make up the time missed, as a result of any adverse
  conditions, during weeks in which the employee has
  not worked a full schedule

in order to account for any scheduled time not worked during his work period.

Revised1/9/01