Subject:
Visitors in the Workplace
Section:
HR
Part:
Policy
Statement: 28
Effective Date: 7/01/02
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It is the policy of Fayetteville State University to provide
an environment for all employees that is professional and free from
distraction. The university has found that time spent attending to a
personal visitor detracts from work production of not only the employee, but
also co-workers.
Thus, effective July 1, 2002, the following university
policies are promulgated. Please note that individual supervisors
(workplace) and faculty (classrooms) may impose additional restrictions, which
are considered appropriate to the successful operation of the institution.
GUESTS
Except when authorized by the appropriate supervisor, all guest, including
but not limited to relatives and friends of employees and employees from other university
units, who do not have official business with a particular department may be
restricted from prolonged visits to the workplace.
CHILDREN
On occasion, young children have been brought to the university campus and
have remained for extended periods of time either in a work area under parental
supervision or elsewhere on campus with or without supervision (e.g.,
classrooms). Most often, these occurrences are during the summer, on snow
days during the winter, on holidays, and at other times when school and day care
facilities are either closed or inaccessible.
While sympathetic with the difficulties parents may encounter
in arranging supervisory care for their children, the university, for several
compelling reasons, cannot accommodate children in campus workplaces, classrooms
or in unsupervised circumstances on campus. These reasons, include risks
of injury, disruption of classes and other normal university operations, in
addition to diverting employees' time and attention from their job
responsibilities and duties. Therefore, the university will not allow:
(1) children under the age of 14 to be on campus without being
accompanied by a responsible older person or without being properly enrolled in
a supervised University activity; or,
(2) students to
bring children into a classroom setting while classes are in progress; or,
(3) children to be present in a parent's or caretaker's campus
workplace or in a classroom for an extended period of time.
The university encourages supervisors to accommodate employees
as much as possible in scheduling sick and annual leave to provide or arrange
for childcare.
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