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employment. Nor shall any employee be disciplined in any fashion for failure to participate in the
aforementioned political activities. In effect, Nueces County employees are prohibited from
participating in political services, campaigns, or related activities during working hours. Also,
employees are prohibited from using county equipment, vehicles, uniforms or other property in the
political service, influence, or effort to advance the political cause of any candidate for public office.
Nor shall any county employee attempt, while on duty, to affect the results of an election or
nomination to public office. This section shall not prohibit any employee from voluntarily making or
receiving private political endorsements during non-duty hours.
OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT:
5.07 Employees of the County shall devote all their time and efforts during their assigned work
hours to their specified work for Nueces County. Employees shall not engage in outside work or
employment to any extent that conflicts with the County interest or which adversely affects the
employee's availability and usefulness to the County during their regular work hours. All employees
who have outside means of support or dual sources of income in the form of other employment, or
are considering other outside employment, should work closely with their respective department
head or elected official on the details of such outside endeavors to assure no conflict with the County
mission. Employees are not permitted to engage in any exchange, purchase, or sale of goods or
services with the County as an additional income source. However, this section does not prohibit
outside employment and personal initiative that is unrelated to an employee's County duties, is
specifically defined as not on County time via payroll transmittals, or is otherwise carefully
documented as being outside the restraints addressed herein. The Elected Official or Department
Head shall have the option of prohibiting such outside employment that is in conflict with the
employee's duties. Any employee who feels that approval or support of such outside employment is
being unreasonably withheld is entitled to use the appropriate grievance procedures to seek
resolution of the problem.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT:
5.08
a. It is the policy of Nueces County that sexual harassment in the work place is prohibited.
All employees are responsible for reporting violations and insuring that the work place
remains free of sexual harassment. More specifically defined, sexual harassment is the
behavior by anyone employed by the county who promotes, initiates, or participates in
unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct of a sexual nature when:
1. submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition
of an individual's employment,
2. submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for
employment decisions affecting such individual, or
3. such conduct has the purpose or affect of unreasonably interfering with an
individual's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive
working environment. Nueces County strongly disapproves of offensive or
inappropriate sexual behavior at work and all employees must avoid any action or
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Approved by Commissioners Court on January _____, 2013