Overview

The State of Vermont Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual is designed to set forth the policies and procedures currently in effect in State government and to establish the requirements for initiating changes and revising such policies.

This manual is designed to further the following goals:

• To provide a uniform system of human resource administration throughout State government.
• To assist managers in the development of sound management practices and procedures, and to make effective consistent use of human resources throughout State government.
• To promote effective communication among managers, supervisors and employees.
• To ensure, protect, and clarify the rights and responsibilities of both the employer and employees.

These policies and procedures are intended to serve as guidelines to assist in the uniform and consistent administration of personnel policy. This policy manual is designed to provide essential information on how to accomplish agency/department mission within the administrative framework of Vermont State Government.

The personnel policies and procedures document is in Portable Document Format (PDF).  This indexed (bookmarked) PDF document can be viewed, printed and searched for desired text or topics.

Personnel Policy & Procedure Manual (1.5mb) 

Instructions for Searching and Printing the Personnel Policies & Procedures Manual

Searching

• Use the bookmarks on the left panel to quickly move to sections or individual policies of interest.
• To search for any word or phrase within the Personnel Policies and Procedure Manual, use the “Find” or “Search” feature of Adobe Reader. This icon is located on the Adobe menu bar.
• To quickly move from one occurrence of a word or phrase to the next within the Personnel Policies and Procedure Manual, use the “Find Next” or “Search Next” feature of Adobe Reader.

Printing

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