All- Here is the Fairfield County policy. SECTION: 4:8 SUBJECT: PRECINCT ELECTION OFFICIAL LEAVE An employee who is a resident of Fairfield County and is not an elected official or a public school teacher may request paid administrative leave to serve as an approved precinct election official on the day of an election. However, nothing in this policy supersedes or negates any provision of a collective bargaining unit. - 64 - The employee must obtain written authorization for paid administrative leave from his or her appointing authority, department head, or designee, prior to contacting the Board of Elections to register as an official of an election, if paid administrative leave on Election Day is desired. The appointing authority, department head, or designee reserves the right to reject a request based on operational need. Should several employees apply who perform similar functions and operational need dictates that not all may participate; priority shall be defined and given by the appointing authority, department head, or designee, with a procedure that is applied uniformly to all similarly situated employees. The Board of Elections reserves the right to refuse to place an employee as a poll worker on the day of the election. In such an instance, the employee must report to work during the employee's regular work hours. The Board of Elections may give priority to employees who have served as officials in prior elections. The employee may be required to attend training courses as mandated by Ohio Law and conducted by the Fairfield County Board of Elections. The employee must attend said training courses as required by the Board of Elections, of which there are options that are outside the traditional working hours. Paid administrative leave is not applicable for the required training. The normal Election Day workday is 6:00 AM until 8:00 PM, or until all election responsibilities are completed. The employee's prompt return to work on the employee's next regular working day is expected. An employee using paid administrative leave to serve as a Precinct Election Official is entitled to paid administrative leave plus compensation designated by the Board of Elections based on the assigned election official duties. The paid administrative leave in this case is not considered "hours worked," for the purposes of computing overtime. An employee would be eligible for paid administrative leave for their regularly scheduled hours of work on the day of the election. From: CORSA-broadcast <corsa-broadcast-bounces@corsa.org> On Behalf Of Dunn, Brian Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 11:35 AM To: CORSA Broadcast Email (corsa-broadcast@corsa.org) <corsa-broadcast@corsa.org> Subject: [CORSA-broadcast] Paid Poll Worker Leave Do any counties have a paid Poll Worker Leave policy for their employees? If so, please share. Thank you. Brian Dunn Projects Coordinator Logan County Commissioners (937) 599-7280 office (937) 599-7268 fax [LoganCountyOhio_LOGO_4C_XS] This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain private, confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, employee or agent responsible for delivering this message, please contact the sender by reply e- mail and destroy all copies of the original e-mail message. According to Ohio Public Records Law written communications to or from agencies/staff regarding this agency are public records and may be available to the public and media upon request. Your e-mail may be subject to public disclosure.
