2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 17 CITY OF WINOOSKI
§ 4.03 Personnel system

§ 17-4.3. Personnel system

(a) Merit principle. All appointments and promotions of city officers and employees shall be made solely on the basis of merit and fitness demonstrated by examination or other evidence of competence.

(b) Personnel director. There shall be a personnel director who shall administer the personnel system of the city. The personnel director shall be the city manager. The personnel director shall be responsible for collective bargaining and administration of negotiated contracts subject to approval by the city council.

(c) Personnel board. There shall be a personnel board consisting of the mayor and the four councilmen.

(d) Personnel rules. The personnel director shall prepare personnel rules. The personnel rules shall be proposed to the council, and the council may by ordinance adopt them with or without amendment. These rules shall provide for:

(1) The classification of all city positions, based on the duties, authority and responsibility of each position, with adequate provision for reclassification of any position whenever warranted by changed circumstances;

(2) A pay plan for all city positions;

(3) Methods for determining the merit and fitness of candidates for appointment or promotion and a system of employee review and evaluation;

(4) The policies and procedures regulating reduction in force and removal of employees. Such policies and procedures may provide that the personnel director shall remove any appointed officer from office or any regular employee of the city from employment, provided, that any appointed officer or any regular employee in the employment of the city for more than 12 consecutive months shall be entitled to a hearing before the city council for review of such removal if such a hearing is requested by such officer or employee within 30 days from the date of removal by the personnel director. Employees in the employment of the city for less than 12 consecutive months shall have no right to review by the city council;

(5) The hours of work, attendance regulations and provisions for sick and vacation leave;

(6) The policies and procedures governing persons holding provisional appointments;

(7) The policies and procedures governing relationships with employee organizations;

(8) Policies regarding in-service training programs;

(9) Grievance procedures, including procedures for the hearing of grievances by the personnel board, which may render advisory opinions based on its findings to the city manager with a copy to the aggrieved employee; and

(10) Other practices and procedures necessary to the administration of the city personnel system.