GSEM Employee Handbook 2022-2023

to the Council. Any employee who fails to report or inaccurately reports any work time will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Compensable Work Time Employees who regularly perform work at a fixed location in one city, but who are given a work assignment in another city, are compensated for the travel time involved, less the time normally required to travel to their regular workplace. This includes travel time to a from our three camp properties. Example: Your normal regular commute is 40 minutes round trip to and back home from work.

30 minutes: Drive from your house to camp 30 minutes: Drive from camp to your house 60 minutes: Total commute time (40 minutes): Normal commute time 20 minutes Compensable travel time Exempt Employees

Exempt employees receive a salary, which is intended to compensate for all hours they may work for the Council. Although the Council may review and modify salaries from time to time, a salary is generally established at the time of hire or when an employee becomes classified as an exempt employee. Under federal law, salaries are subject to certain deductions. For example, absent contrary state law requirements, a salary can be reduced for the following reasons in a workweek in which work was performed: • Full day absences for sickness or disability, in accordance with the sick day pay plan and short- term disability insurance plan. • Full day disciplinary suspensions for infractions of safety rules of major significance (including those that could cause serious harm to others) • Family and Medical Leave absences (either full or partial day absences) • To offset amounts received as payment for jury and witness fees or military pay. • Unpaid disciplinary suspensions of one or more full days for significant infractions of major workplace conduct rules set forth in written policies. • The first or last week of employment in the event you work less than a full week. An employee’s salary also may be reduced for certain types of deductions, such as: an employee’s portion of health, dental or life insurance premiums; state, federal or local taxes, social security, or voluntary contributions to a 403(b) or pension plan. Employees are required to use accrued vacation, personal or other forms of paid time off for full or partial day absences for personal reasons, sickness, or disability. However, an exempt employee’s salary will be reduced for absences if they do not have accrued paid time off. It is a violation of the Company’s policy for any employee to falsify a timecard, or to alter another employee’s timecard. It is also a serious violation of Company policy for any employee or manager to instruct another employee to incorrectly or falsely report hours worked or alter another employee’s timecard to under-or over-report hours worked. If any manager or employee instructs another employee to (1) incorrectly or falsely under- or over-report your hours worked,

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