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MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. EMPLOYEE’S RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES RIGHTS: 1. Each employee shall be given a job description, and Contract at time of employment. Such job description/contract shall detail: a) The job title; b) Primary responsibilities; c) Wage rate and salary range for position; d) A copy of written personnel policies and procedures. 2. Personnel selection and appointment shall be made after the position has been advertised through the press or by word of mouth, and applicants have completed the application for employment, been interviewed by the staff of this agency and selected on merit over other applicants. 3. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "no person shall be denied employment solely on the basis of race, color, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, sex, or cultural background". 4. Employees shall continue in office indefinitely unless terminated by reason of breach of code, incompetence or other reasons that may warrant dismissal from position. An employee may also terminate his/her appointment by resignation. In this case, a one month (4 weeks) written notice shall be given to the Administrator by the employee. 5. All overtime hours worked shall be paid time and a half of their regular hourly rate. 6. Full-time employees who have worked for this agency for at least one (1) years shall be entitled to a one-week paid annual vacation. 7. No days of absenteeism due to illness or injury allowed. 8. All legal holidays shall be work-free days for all employees except for those employees who volunteer to work. Such voluntary work shall be paid. 9. A yearly evaluation shall be made on each employee and salary increases will be considered annually. Promotions shall be considered at the end of each five-year period. RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Each new field employee (full- or part-time) shall, for inclusion in his/her file, prior to contact with patients, must submit the results of a Mantoux method tuberculin skin test (TST), performed within the last twelve months. Also be required to have a pre-employment statement from a physician. Such statement will indicate, within the last twelve months, that the employee is in reasonable good health and does not appear to be at risk of transmitting communicable diseases, which would jeopardize the health of any person under the care of this agency. Employees not known to be tuberculin reactors shall provide documentation that they have had a tuberculin skin test within the past twelve months. Positive reactors to a tuberculin skill test shall provide documentation of adequate preventive therapy or the results of a chest X-ray taken with the past twelve (12) months. 2. All newly hired employees shall serve an initial three-month (90 day) probationary period before admittance to full employment status on successful completion of the probationary Home Health Agency Policies A-132