HR3775 - Early Dismissal/School Closing

1. Institutional Regulations
   
   Determination of early dismissal or school closing for daytime or evening classes due to reasons such as inclement weather or mechanical equipment failure shall be the responsibility of the President or designee.
    
2. Procedures
   1. Announcement of a full day school closing shall generally begin no later than 6:00 a.m. over selected radio and television stations. Employees may request to receive DMACC Emergency information including campus closings via DMACC Alert on their cell phone, land line phone, or email. Employees who have phone-mail may also access their phone-mail from home and hear a broadcast message if the campus has been closed.
   2. Announcement of early dismissal or partial day school closing shall be made by the President or designee over the College phone-mail system and other media, as appropriate.
   3. Announcements shall indicate if on-line classes will still meet during the closure.
   4. Regular Employees
      1. Regular employees shall not be required to use leave or have their pay reduced due to the closure or early dismissal. Some employees may, however, be required to make up the time missed.
         1. Employees who are not scheduled to work during some or all of the early dismissal or closing hours may not take other time off equivalent to the dismissal/closing hours.
         2. Employees previously approved for paid leave on a date for which there is an early dismissal/closure will not be permitted to adjust their leaves based on the early dismissal/closure.
      2. Overtime eligible employees may only work during an early dismissal or College closure if requested to do so by their supervisor.
      3. There may be instances where exempt Administrative/Professional staff are required to work remotely during an early dismissal or College closure due to a time sensitive exigency.
      4. Regular employees who are absent from work due to inclement weather when the College is open may charge the absence to Personal Leave, Vacation, or Leave Without Pay as appropriate, or, with supervisor approval, adjust their work schedule within the same work week to make up the time missed.
   5. Temporary, Student and Adjunct Employees
      1. Credit Adjunct instructors shall not have their pay reduced due to a school closing or early dismissal.
      2. All other Adjunct employees, along with Temporary and Student employees, shall be paid only for actual hours worked. When they do not work due to an early dismissal or closing, they shall not be paid.

Guidelines for College Closure

Adopted: October 1, 2002
Reviewed: Annually

Revised:
January 1, 2005

October 1, 2007

November 1, 2010

November 1, 2012

February 21, 2017

September 1, 2020

December 10, 2021

October 7, 2022