PETOSKEY — Emmet County officials last month finalized a significant overhaul of its employee personnel manual.
The revisions, due to take effect on the first day of next year, are some of the first changes to the document in more than a decade, and bring the county up-to-date both in terms of long-delayed employee incentives — now imperative in the competitive hiring market — as well as current laws and statutes.
The current version of the personnel manual was drafted and approved in 2010, although the text of the document indicates minor amendments have been made since that time, including some sections added or changed as recently as 2015. But that hasn’t been enough to keep up with the regulations and best practices that have developed in the intervening time.
At a meeting earlier this year, Emmet County Administrator Mike Reaves said somewhere around 90% of the material in the policy was out of date, based on a review by a law firm the county hired.
He said he’ll be proposing updates to the county’s policies more regularly from here on out.
“We won’t wait another 10 years,” Reaves said at a board of commissioners meeting late last month. “This will be done on an annual basis.”
The completion of the new personnel manual has been a product of more than a year’s worth of behind-the-scenes work by the administration, but has been a topic of discussion for the Emmet County Board of Commissioners for a little over two months, beginning with a strategic planning session at...
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