15.2-849 - Establishing times and conditions of employment; personnel management, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-849. Establishing times and conditions of employment; personnelmanagement, etc.

A. A county may establish and prescribe for all county employees and, asnecessary, for officers thereof, the following provisions:

1. Normal workdays and hours of employment therein;

2. Holidays;

3. Days of vacation allowed;

4. Days of sick leave allowed;

5. Other provisions concerning the hours and conditions of employment;

6. Plans of personnel management and control;

7. Systems of retirement for all or any classes of officers and employees ofthe county but the adoption of the urban county executive form of governmentshall in no way affect any retirement system in effect in any such countyprior to the date of adoption of such form; and

8. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, such employee benefit programsas it deems appropriate. In connection with some or all of such employeebenefit programs, the county may enter into voluntary salary reductionagreements with its officers and employees when such agreements areauthorized under the laws of the United States relating to federal incometaxes. Any such voluntary salary reduction agreements entered into prior toJanuary 1, 1988, are hereby validated.

B. Any such county shall have the power to establish, alter, amend or repealat will any provision adopted under subsection A hereof.

(Code 1950, § 15-384.69; 1960, c. 382; 1962, c. 623, § 15.1-782; 1988, c.879; 1997, c. 587.)