Employee Handbook

Section 2 — Employment

Regular City employees will be classified into one of the following Employment Statuses:

• Regular Full Time  - Employees who normally work a minimum of 40 hours per week.

• Regular Part Time - Three Quarter Time: Employees who normally work more than 30 hours, but less than 40 hours per week.

• Regular Part Time - Half Time: Employees who normally work more than 20 hours, but less than 30 hours per week.

• Regular Part Time - Less than Half Time: Employees who normally work less than 20 hours per week.

It is the supervisor’s responsibility to work within each employee’s designated status, as defined above. A change in status must be a change that the supervisor, in good faith, believes to be longer term and not the result of a temporary assignment.

In addition, the City also recognizes the following Employment Statuses:

• Seasonal or Temporary: Employees hired by the City to work a full-time or part-time schedule for the duration of specific projects or assignments. Temporary assignments cannot extend beyond 12 months, except with the approval of the Human Resources Director and the City Manager.  

• Intermittent: Employees hired by the City to work intermittently throughout the year. These employees may be assigned to a succession of seasonal/temporary positions or serve in a regular position, with sporadic interruptions in hours between assignments, or may be called in to cover for vacations, during peak periods, and so forth without the obligation for set hours. Intermittent employees who do not work within a 12-month period will be considered to have terminated their employment with the City.  

• Grant Funded/Limited Term:  Employees hired for a specific period of time by the City.  Grant-funded positions are ones in which revenue is given to the City, via the grant, to fund temporary positions. Limited term positions are designated by the City to only last a specific duration. Grant-funded positions or limited-term positions may still be considered civil service positions, and must comply with Iowa Code .

• Police Reserves:  Public Safety Volunteers are permitted by the Department of Labor to receive a nominal reimbursement for services provided to the City.

The City does not permit an individual to perform volunteer services for the City when such hours involve the same type of service for which the individual is employed to perform for the City. Therefore, no employee will be permitted to volunteer time when working in a similar or identical position.