Monongahela: Employees may be disciplined for not returning handbooks
By ERIC SEIVERLING
eseiverling@yourmvi.com
Monongahela officials are upset they haven’t received signed handbooks from a number of city employees, and those employees may soon face disciplinary action.
At a workshop session Monday morning, Councilwoman Claudia Williams voiced concern that she hasn’t received the signed handbooks and said she was ready to make a motion to discipline those employees.
Solicitor Todd Pappasergi said some of the employees who haven’t turned in their handbooks, including those from the city’s Streets Department, are protected by a union.
“A department head can issue a suspension with pay,” he said. “Anything beyond that, such as a suspension without pay and termination, falls to me and council.
“That’s the discharge of a public employee. You have to give that person due process with a Loudermill process. You cannot make that predetermination. It’s a violation of the Fifth and 14th amendments.”
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