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RESOLUTION N0. 91-2
A Resolution Amending Section 8.2 of the Personnel Policies and
Procedures Manual to Provide Guidelines for the Release of Employment
information Related to Former Employees.
BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Council hereby amends Section 8.2 of
the Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual to read as follows:
" Sec. 8.2 Post-Employment Information Release
It is the Town's policy that following the end of employment by the
Town, whether by resignation or termination, the Town will not furnish
references or provide evaluations of a former employee except as
provided in this section.
Upon receipt of the Voluntary Release of Information Form completed
by the former employee, or a similar signed authorization from the
employee that releases the Town from any liability for the disclosure of
employment-related information, the personnel office of the Town may
release the following information to a prospective employer:
(1j Date of hire and entry level position classification;
{2) A listing of all positions held with the Town and the dates
they were held;
{3) Salary history;
(4j Date that the employment with the Town ended.
If the prospective employer provides to the Town a Voluntary
Release of Information form or other acceptable authorization form
signed by the former employee as provided above, and the prospective
employer requests additional employment information on the former
employee, then the prospective employer shall be given access to the
employee's personnel file in accordance with Section 8.1 of these
policies.
In addition to the above, the Town Manager or the Department Head
who had authority over the employee during his or her employment may,
upon receipt of the Voluntary Release of Information form or other
acceptable authorization form signed by the former employee as provided
above, provide an objective evaluation of the former employee including,
in addition to other relevant information, observations and opinions of
the former employee's skill levels, work habits, performance, conduct,
and character.
For the purposes of this section, a faxed or photocopied version of
• the Voluntary Release of Information form or other acceptable
authorization form signed by the former employee may be accepted by the
Town at its discretion."
This Resolution is effective upon adoption, and is adopted this 5th
day of February, 1991, by recorded vote of the Town Council of the Town
of Pulaski, Virginia, as follows:
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Charles D. Crispin
J. R. Schrader, Jr.
Mary Lou Copenhaver
James R. Neighbors
Attest:
Clerk of Council
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TOWN OF PULASKI, VIRGINIA
Mayor