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403.9 Employee Assistance Program

Code No. 403.9

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The school district will provide an employee assistance program (EAP) to its employees and immediate family for confidential assistance with off-the-job problems to help prevent them from becoming on-the-job performance or disciplinary problems.

This service is designed to provide short-term counseling or referral for treatment for such problems as family or marriage, financial, physical/emotional health, drug/alcohol, stress, legal, relationship, crisis intervention, grief and loss, and other concerns.

Employees may choose to use EAP services voluntarily prior to job performance problems or employees may be referred to EAP by a supervisor because of a job performance problem.

Confidentiality will be maintained and EAP staff will not release information to supervisors or school district management for any reason except for emergency safety, legal, or health reasons.

When a supervisor makes a mandatory referral of an employee to EAP as a result of performance problems, the supervisor will inform the superintendent who will receive updates of compliance by the employee with the EAP recommendations. No EAP reports will become part of the employee I s personnel file.

Under no circumstances will the school district be required to have employees obtain EAP counseling before the school district can take actions affecting an employee's terms and conditions of employment.

Approved 8-21-95        Reviewed 11-21-16             Revised   6-17-2019