Employee Rights

Recently, a page at the library made some comments that were less than flattering about how the local town was handling a new subdivision.

Two members of an immediate family are employed by the library. They were hired long ago at different times by a previous administration.

Are there any laws around a supervisor or manager telling others the reason for an employee being out on leave?

How long should the library retain employee records, payroll records, sales and purchase records, mortgage and loan documents, and other records?

This is an issue that's come up in recent conversation.

I understand that, as employers of a union shop, the library is required to allow the union a reasonable amount of time to conduct union business.[1]

My concern is about employee privacy and image use.

[My library's] community is calling for a member of the staff to have a seat on the board as a voting member.

A director of a library resources council asks…

We are planning an emergency preparedness training for library staff to include CPR, First Aid, Stop the Bleed, and Narcan training.