The handbook laying out the Warren County Board of Supervisors’ policy for county employees will avoid a major overhaul, but will be reworked in a few key areas.

Supervisors were updated on possible revisions during a meeting Monday with attorney Ken Rector, hired by the board in March to examine the policy.

One problem was termed as &#8220broad language.” Possible changes include clear exclusion of temporary laborers from coverage by county policies and giving department heads more of a free hand in offenses that lead to terminations.

The county entity mostly involved with temporary labor is the Warren County Road Department.

With 78 employees, the department maintains county roads with the help of a handful of laborers provided through a staffing company. After 180 days, the road manager can recommend a laborer be hired as a county road department employee.

Reached later, Road Department Manager Richard Winans said nine such workers are with the department at this time.

As for terminations, the policy, which had not been updated in any way in at least a decade, was structured with three levels of &#8220staged discipline” in which a single act of insubordination did not necessarily warrant a termination.

Rector recommended that the number of offenses not be classified in stages so department heads could decide more on a case-by-case basis.

Among other additions after a final draft is worked out include summarizing an employee’s rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act and establishing the county administrator as the final point of contact in handling written sexual harassment complaints.

Such complaints still would have to begin with the appropriate supervisor in a department.

Upon completion, each department head, minus the Sheriff’s Department, which has its own policy, still would have the option of adopting it as their own.

&#8220We will encourage people to opt in. If they don’t, they don’t,” said District 4 Supervisor Carl Flanders, board president.

Reworking the personnel policy is one of three related issues put on the county’s to-do list soon after Flanders was elected president and other appointees were named in January.

One, an organizational chart for county government, was approved in February. The other, implementing performance evaluations for the county’s 293 employees, has not made its way out of exploratory stages.