If Dallas County Officials Close Offices For Bad Weather, Jenkins Wants It Marked "Holiday"

• Freudian slip? Pinocchio wanted to become a real boy. Pinochet was the Chilean dictator. :)

• Yes, and this seems like the right balance to me.  If an individually elected official thinks it's too dangerous to close up on a day the rest of the county is open, he should at least have to account for the decision.  But the employees shouldn't be punished. 

• Another tool for the shed. SHEESH

• Looks like Jenkins, the JWPsock  puppet, is desperate to promote himself now that it looks like his puppeteer his about to be sent to the Big House. Like Pinochet, Jenkins is now desperate to prove he's a real boy. Not working.

• I've worked at three different places, and all of them paid hourly employees their normal pay on a snow day.  Granted these were all accounting or real estate offices and not retail stores so I'm sure there are differences based on the private sector you talk about.

• As a salaried employee in Dallas for more than 25 years  with a half a dozen employers I always got paid for "snow days". Don't know what we're talking about do we Jason?

• In the private sector, you usually do not get paid on "snow days" so I don't think city employees should either.

• I think paying hourly employees when offices are closed for bad weather and dangerous driving conditions is fair and the humane thing to do.  That money is already budgeted, and the employees are not the ones responsible for the circumstances.

• I can't verify, but I read the original post as saying that the Texas Attorney General's Office has already decided that independently elected officials can close their offices without any input from Jenkins or the commissioners court and that the county has no choice but to pay the employees without docking vacation or comp time.  If this is right, then it sounds like Jenkins is using the only tool available to him:  Shaming the independently elected officials by making them describe the amount of money they cost the county by closing up shop on days the county is officially open for business.   

• I'm normally one to kick Jenkins when he's down, but this memo seems to give County employees a break by granting holiday pay (instead of making said employee eat comp time or vacation time) for inclement weather when the executive closes the office.  Of course I may have more time card punching skills than Wilonsky.  HR types please clarify.

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