Town of Blackstone, MA Personnel Committee

§ 145-6 Composition; duties.

The Board of Selectmen shall serve as the Personnel Committee. They shall promulgate personnel policies defining the rights, benefits and obligations of employees subject to this policy.

§ 145-7 Personnel Director.

The Town Administrator shall be ex officio Personnel Director of the Town and shall be the administrative representative of the Personnel Committee. He shall furnish the Committee with all information essential for the actions of the Committee under this policy. The Director shall administer this policy with authority to interpret same but not to rescind or otherwise amend. The Director shall report to the Committee in writing any interpretation he makes in any area where this policy is not reasonably clear in his opinion. He shall make recommendations on the policy to the Personnel Ad Hoc Committee and the Board of Selectmen. These recommendations shall be reviewed and/or amended by the Ad Hoc Committee and submitted to the Board of Selectmen for final approval.

Nothing in this section is intended to confer jurisdiction of the Town Administrator over other appointive authorities or their functions or to rescind the right of any department head or employee to seek the opinion of the Personnel Committee in respect to this policy, and the finding of the Committee shall prevail.

§ 145-8 Department heads.

Department heads shall be responsible for the adherence to the provisions of this personnel policy on a day-to-day basis by all employees of their departments. They shall be responsible for overseeing the conduct of all probationary employees and for providing the Personnel Director with a written report as to their findings.

An evaluation report form shall be developed by the department head, suitable to the department's needs, and evaluations shall be performed on an as-needed basis, but in no way shall it be performed on less than an annual basis.

Department heads shall prepare and regularly update a job description for all positions within their departments and shall provide a copy of same to the Personnel Director and the Personnel Committee.