Employment Questions

Can county commissioners establish a longevity pay program and who is eligible to receive this pay?
​Answer: 19 OS § 180.84
are county leave policies limited in any way?
Answer: 19 OS § 1301
Can county commissioners give safety and/or incentive awards to county employees​?
Are employees allowed time off to vote​?
Answer: 26 OS § 7-101
If state employees are required to work on a holiday, are they entitled to a day off work on an alternate date?
Answer: 25 OS § 82.1(D)
Are there provisions on how and when an employee must use accrued compensatory time?
Under the leave sharing program, what situations allow a state employee to donate annual or sick leave to a fellow state employee who has exhausted all types of paid leave?
Are employees of elected officials required to work an eight-hour day and are county officers required to maintain office hours of eight hours per workday?
Answer: 1983 OK AG 219
Is a county employee prohibited from receiving raises, lateral transfers or promotions while a person related to that employee is an officer of the same county?
Answer: 1990 OK AG 25
What is defined as a workday for public employees and can there be an alternative work schedule?
Answer: 61 OS § 3
​Are counties required to have an employee to coordinate all safety programs?
Answer: 40 OS § 403(E)
May a board of county commissioners and members of a county excise board fail to designate a mandated holiday and the days county offices will be closed?
Answer: 1984 OK AG 56
Can a county commissioner assign county employees to a workweek of four ten-hour days?
Answer: 1987 OK AG 4
If a person is elected to be a county commissioner, must all relatives to that person who are currently employees of the county resign their positions or employments?
Answer: 1988 OK AG 45
Is reinstatement of health insurance coverage available to former state employees?
What are the leave benefits for employees who are reinstated after a break in service?
Can a county employee do contract work for the county?
Answer: 69 OS § 630
Are counties allowed to provide paid leave to employees affected by a national disaster?
Answer: 19 OS § 180.90