1.20 Outside Employment

A.    Outside Employment Procedures.

1.    An employee shall not engage in outside employment that impairs the employee's capacity to perform the County service duties and responsibilities in an acceptable manner.

2.    Permission to perform outside employment shall require prior written approval of the Department Head. It shall be the responsibility of each Department Head to periodically review them to insure that they are current and not in conflict with the employee's County job requirements. It is the responsibility of the employee to report any change in the status of outside employment to the Department Head.

3.    The approved requests shall be kept on file in the Risk and Emergency Management Department and a copy shall be kept in the employee’s departmental personnel file. A list of approvals shall be included on Risk and Emergency Management Department’s semi-annual report to the Board of Supervisors.

4.    Any injury occurring during outside employment shall be reported to and recorded by the Department Head. Copies of the report shall be sent to the Human Resources Department and the Risk and Emergency Management Department.

5.    Employees who fail to notify the Department Head may have disciplinary actions taken against them, up to and including dismissal.