REQUEST FOR DECISION
DATE: July 10, 2023 Report No. ADM-23-023
TO: Dan Horan, Chief Administrative Officer
FROM: Vicki Gannon, Director of Human Resources and Community Relations
SUBJECT:
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Employee Recognition Policy
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
That Council approve the revisions to PER-02 Employee Recognition Policy as outlined in Staff Report ADM-23-023.
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RELEVANT POLICY:
Recognition of Long Term Service and Retirement Policy
Staff Farewell Functions
STRATEGIC RELEVANCE:
Good Governance and Organizational Excellence
BACKGROUND:
The current recognition policy has been in place since 2015, providing regular full time staff with recognition pins, additional vacation, and a gift at 25 years of service with a value up to $500. Departments who have retiring staff with more than 25 years of regular full-time service can present a gift valued to a maximum of $150. Attached is the current policy, the draft policy showing all the recommended changes in red, and a clean copy of the draft policy.
There have been some concerns regarding this long service recognition policy as it does not recognize auxiliary employees or part-time employees, and further, it only recognizes service as a regular full-time employee. Therefore, in many cases, an employee's service recognition date did not match their actual years of service. The recommended changes to the policy include adding long service recognition for auxiliary employees and regular part-time employees, and further, changing the date used for regular full-time employees to the "anniversary date", which includes previous auxiliary time worked, provided it was consecutive.
The recommended changes to the policy include providing for alternate recognition awards other than pins. In addition, it is recommended that the $500 gift awarded at 25 years of service be awarded instead at retirement and that the retirement awards be expanded to include employees with 15 or more years of serv...
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