Policy 05.12 Children in the Workplace
POLICY TITLE: | Children in the Workplace |
POLICY NUMBER: | 05.12 |
VERSION: | 1.0 |
REVISED DATE: | April 17, 2018 |
REVIEWED DATE: | March 13, 1018 |
APPROVAL DATE: | March 22, 2018 |
EFFECTIVE DATE: | April 2, 2018 |
NUMBER OF PAGES: | 2 |
A. OVERVIEW
1. Description and Purpose The following policy describes the regular work schedule for employees of the City of Saint Paul (City).
2. Applicability This policy applies to all employees of the City.
3. Failure to Comply Failure to comply with this policy may result in disciplinary action in accordance with any and all disciplinary policies of the City.
B. POLICY AND PROCEDURE
1. The City prohibits the presence of children in the workplace for other than official community activities involving children. Employees with dependent children are expected to make regular arrangements for proper care of their children while at work.
2. Employees and supervisors must consider issues of safety, confidentiality, disruption of operations, disruption of services, disruption to other employees, appropriateness, and legal liability, as well as sudden emergency, posed by the presence of children in the workplace. Therefore, City employees are prohibited from bringing minor children to work during working hours.
3. Exceptions
a. The City Manager and or Department Directors may grant exceptions for a temporary, unforeseen emergency, but no parent or relative can have a child in the workplace without the City Manager’s and or Department Directors’ permission or use the workplace as an alternative to childcare or for any other purpose. When authorized, the accompanying adult employee must supervise the children at all times.
b. The City Manager in consultation with the Department Director may make an exception for employees with an infant, on a case by case basis. Such an exception shall be documented in a memorandum to the employee.
c. Supervisors may direct an employee to remove a child from the workplace. In this event, the employee will be charged with leave for any time that he is absent from his assigned station. Supervisors may make exceptions for holiday parties and “Take Your Child to Work Day.”
4. No minor may ever be allowed into an area that is potentially hazardous (i.e., where hazardous equipment, human-derived materials, hazardous materials, etc., are located); such prohibited areas include: power plant,
5. Children exhibiting symptoms of potentially contagious illnesses should not be brought into the workplace. Provision for sick children should be made within the context of various forms of leave available to staff: leave relating to caring for a sick family member (sick leave), annual leave, or unpaid leave.
6. City computers are City property and vital equipment, intended for use only by employees in the course and scope of assigned duties. Computers are not to be used as a toy or entertainment for visiting children.
7. The City does not accept any liability for injuries to children who are on campus in violation of this policy.
C. FORM(S)
1. None.
D. REFERENCE(S)
1. None.
E. DEFINITION(S)
1. minor and children - means any individual who has not reached the age of 18. For purposes of this policy, difficulty or inability in arranging childcare does not constitute an emergency.
F. POLICY HISTORY
1. This is a new policy.