(a) The Town Manager or his or her designee shall be the personnel director. He or she may prepare personnel rules and regulations protecting the interests of the Town and of the employees. These rules and regulations must be approved by the Selectboard and shall include the procedure for amending them and for placing them into practice.

(b) The rules and regulations may deal with the following subjects or with other similar matters of personnel administration: job classification, jobs to be filled, tenure, retirement, pensions, leaves of absence, vacations, holidays, hours and days of work, group insurance, salary plans, rules governing hiring, temporary appointment, lay-off, reinstatement, promotion, transfer, demotion, settlement of disputes, dismissal, probationary periods, permanent or continuing status, in-service training, injury, employee records, and further regulations concerning the hearing of appeals. (Amended 2001, No. M-7, § 2, eff. May 21, 2001; 2007, No. M-1, § 10, eff. Jan. 20, 2007; 2009, No. M-18 (Adj. Sess.), § 14, eff. May 5, 2010; 2013, No. M-4, § 2, eff. May 8, 2013.)