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employment-policies/accommodation-of-disabilities.md

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+# Accommodation of Disabilities
+
+In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), The Montana Dinosaur Center provides reasonable accommodation to all qualified disabled employees, upon request, so long as the potential accommodation does not create an undue hardship on The Montana Dinosaur Center.
+
+If you believe that you may require an accommodation, discuss your needs with your Department Head.  We may require medical certification of both the disability and the need for accommodation.
+
+An interactive process is used to determine the best type of accommodation in each situation and whether the requested accommodation is reasonable.  
+
+\

employment-policies/attendance-policy.md

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+# Attendance Policy
+
+Excessive absenteeism and tardiness negatively impact our customers and the entire team. Absenteeism is defined as missing work without notifying your Supervisor in advance. Excessive absenteeism or tardiness may result in termination of your employment unless extenuating circumstances are proven to exist. 
+
+Missing work without notifying your manager in advance for one or more consecutive days may be considered job abandonment and result in termination of employment.
+
+\
+If you must miss work or know you will be late, please contact your Supervisor as early as possible.  Unexcused absenteeism or tardiness may result in implementation of the warning policy.  
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+If you need to leave work during the workday (i.e. doctor’s appointment, return home because of a sick child), we ask that you do your best to notify your Supervisor with as much notice as possible.  

employment-policies/confidentiality-policy-acknowledgement.md

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+---
+description: >-
+  Export this page as PDF, print it, sign it, and return it to the Executive
+  Director.
+---
+
+# Confidentiality Policy Acknowledgement
+
+By signing this document, you acknowledge that you have read and understand  the MDC Confidentiality Policy, and will abide by it.
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+Print Name \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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+Signature  \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Date \_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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employment-policies/confidentiality.md

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+# Confidentiality
+
+Throughout your employment or service with the Montana Dinosaur Center (MDC), you will be exposed to both proprietary information and information which is not yet public knowledge. A few examples of this include landowner information, donor information, educational methods and information relating to undescribed specimens. There are many other sensitive issues as well. Reasons for keeping information confidential vary widely and include protecting our research that could include information from external researchers who would publish first on other specimens and intentionally exclude our specimens, and protecting the fossils from fossil poachers, or commercial collectors/resellers.
+
+### Location & Landowner Privacy
+
+Protecting sites and maintaining confidentiality for public land is required by state and federal law. In truth, we want to make it more difficult for other collectors to “negotiate” us off of the land we currently use. Protecting the privacy of landowners is paramount to maintaining good relationships, and therefore reliable access to our dig sites. Some information will be public information when the appropriate time comes; this may be months or years in the future when research is published or agreements change. MDC requires the ability to determine that time. It is part of the terms of your employment to help us protect this sensitive information.
+
+### Photographs and Social Media 
+
+Anything shared or made available through MDC’s social media accounts may be re-shared on your personal social media. This is MDC’s preferred method for you to get approval and share media of our digs and specimens. We highly encourage staff to create appropriate posts for our social media accounts, including photos, short or long form video, and “quotes from the field”.
+
+### Things that can be shared without permission: 
+
+* Picture/video of unprepared bones that are not diagnostic to a genus level (e. g. a hadrosaur femur, rib, vertebrae, etc. that does not include geocoordinates in the photo EXIF data or other places)
+* Landscape photos without the dig site visible so that people can’t figure out the location  based on the photos 
+
+### Some things that can't be shared without permission (not a definitive list): 
+
+* Pictures and videos of Skull bones. 
+* Proprietary documentation (like this one) 
+  * Prep sheets
+  * Journal entries
+* GPS coordinates of dig sites (especially in photograph metadata from your phone!) 
+* Directions to dig sites
+* Landowner Information
+* WiFi passwords
+* Security codes
+* Keys
+
+## If you are ever uncertain whether something is shareable, please consult the Executive Director
+
+Failure to abide by this policy may result in suspension, dismissal, or civil liability.\

employment-policies/employee-classifications.md

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+# Employee Classifications
+
+At The Montana Dinosaur Center, paid employees regularly working 30 hours or more per week are considered full-time employees. An employee regularly working less than 30 hours a week is considered a part-time employee.
+
+(For paid employees), exempt employees are paid on a salary basis and non-exempt employees are paid on an hourly basis.

employment-policies/equal-employment-opportunity.md

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+# Equal Employment Opportunity
+
+It is the policy of The Montana Dinosaur Center to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition including medical characteristics, marital status or any other classification protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. This policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, working conditions, compensation, promotion, benefits, scheduling, training, discipline and termination.
+
+The Company expects all employees to support our equal employment opportunity policy, and to take all steps necessary to maintain a workplace free from unlawful discrimination and harassment.

employment-policies/personnel-file-policy.md

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+# Personnel File Policy
+
+Employees may contact the Executive Director to request a time to review their personnel file. With reasonable advance notice, an employee may review his or her own records in the The Montana Dinosaur Center offices during regular business hours and in the presence of the Executive Director who is appointed by The Montana Dinosaur Center to maintain the records. No copies of documents in your file may be made, except for documents that you have previously signed. You may add your comments to any disputed item in the file.

employment-policies/privacy.md

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+# Privacy
+
+The Montana Dinosaur Center is respectful of employee privacy. All employee demographic and personal information will be shared only as required in the normal course of business.
+
+The Montana Dinosaur Center does not make or receive any private healthcare information through the course of normal work. If any employee voluntarily shares private healthcare information with a member of management, this information will be kept confidential. If applicable, The Montana Dinosaur Center will set up guidelines for employees and management to follow to ensure that company employees conform to the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).