Election duties. The Council regard election duties as a public duty and, as such, allow employees to take time during their working day, with full pay, to undertake such duties. Employees may receive an allowance and expenses for carrying out these duties which they can keep. Employees who undertake an election count during a normal working day may be entitled to take the rest of the day off with full pay after the election duties are finished. This will be confirmed at the time. If a count happens at night, there is no entitlement to have the day following as additional leave. Employees can request this as annual leave/flexi. Employees who undertake an election count on a day they would not normally work may be credited for the hours they worked during the count. For example, if someone who does not work Fridays, did 4 hours for the count on a Friday, they could claim flexi time for 4 hours. This will be confirmed at the time as there are different arrangements for different types of elections. These arrangements do not apply to agency workers.
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