Employee Manual 2025 - Flipbook - Page 35
Jury Duty:
Any full-time, ¾-time or year-round part-time employee who is called to and reports for jury
duty shall be paid by the City for each day, not exceeding ten (10) days per year, partially or
wholly spent in performing jury duty if the employee would have been scheduled to work for
the City. After ten days, the employee will not be compensated by the City unless that
employee utilizes their accumulated paid leave time (i.e. vacation, personal, compensatory).
The employee will be paid their regular rate of pay for the time spent on jury duty. When the
employee has completed their jury duty, they will submit to the City any jury pay received. An
employee must give the City prior notice that they have been summoned for jury duty and
must furnish satisfactory evidence that jury duty was performed on the days for which payment
is claimed. Employees are required to report to work on any day or partial day they do not have
on jury duty
Employees required, either by the City of Plymouth or any public agency, to appear before a
court or such agency on matters related to their work for the City of Plymouth shall be deemed
at work during the period of time they are scheduled to appear.
Volunteer Hours
All full-time non-union employees are provided 8 hours of paid time (straight rate of pay) for
volunteering with a local charity or school in the City of Plymouth, Plymouth Township or Plymouth
Canton Community School District. Any time taken must not create a staffing issue for the
department and must not create a situation requiring additional expenses to provide department
coverage. The time and volunteer opportunity must be approved by the employee’s department
supervisor or city manager.
General Leaves:
Each non-probationary full-time employee will be entitled to the following types of leave, subject
to the expressed terms and conditions. Individual departments may provide further guidance
related to various leave types that meet the needs of the department.
1.
Leave Without Pay: All requests for leave of absence without pay shall be made,
in writing, by the employee desiring the leave. Such requests shall set forth fully
the reasons for the request of such leave, the date when such leave would begin
and end, and a statement of the reasons for the leave. Such requests shall be
transmitted to the city manager by the department head, with a statement of
their approval or disapproval of the request, the plan for taking care of the work
during the absence of the employee, and, if necessary, a request for certification
of an eligible person for appointment to the temporary vacancy. No leave of
absence shall be effective until formally requested as stated above and
approved by the city manager, except that when a leave of absence is made
necessary through sudden illness or injury or service to country or state, the
department head may grant such leave without a signed statement from the
employee and approval thereof, if given, by the city manager shall be
retroactive.
City of Plymouth Employee manual - Page 35 – May 2025
