Employees

2022

March 15: No one who lives in Fincastle can work for Fincastle unless they are hired as contract labor for less than $500 with a 1099 and a form on what work was done
February 8: No one living in Fincastle can be a supervisor or foreman of maintenance

2021

September 22: No employee is allowed to take Fincastle equipment home with them
September 22: No one is allowed to use Fincastle equipment unless it is an employee
August 3: The Board will do random drug testing for all employees

2020

November 24: The Property Manager and Maintenance Foreman should be on salary pay
November 7: All maintenance men will go through training on how to deal with angry residents
October 27: The office manager has the right to tell a resident that they have to pay their operating expenses with money orders instead of checks if their check bounces 1 time. This can least for a period up to 12 months.
October 2: The Board’s designee is the only one allowed to do Inspections of the units
October 2: The property manager is the go between for maintenance and the Board
September 8: All employees receive up to $50 for their phone bills depending on the cost of their phones
September 8: Employees will now work the Friday after Thanksgiving and will get all of Christmas Eve off
September 8: Employee uniforms will be re-evaluated at the employee’s 90 days
July 21: Employees will receive health insurance. 80% will be covered by Fincastle and 20% will be covered by the employee.

2019

March 21: Office and Maintenance hours are Monday – Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm

2014

January 14: Employees may live in Fincastle

2013

January 8: Approved internet for the office

2010

December 14: All work orders are to be done in the order that they come in, except for emergencies
August 10: Employees must lock the dumpster after hours and on the weekends
- Volunteers will hold keys in case of an emergency

2009

March 3: Vacation and Sick Time can be taken in half day increments

2008

February 10: 2 day no show due to a snow storm can be made up by using sick leave or annual
February 10: ½ hour late show can be made up either by short lunch or extended day
February 10: After a roof replacement, the roof must be inspected by the maintenance foreman

2007

May 8: Employees are allowed to use sick hours if a spouse, child, mother, or father is hospitalized
February 13: Employees can use their funeral leave for their in-laws (mother, father, sister, brother)

2003

May 13: Maintenance will no longer be able to pick up operating expenses for residents. Operating payments can be mailed to the office, hand delivered during business hours, or dropped in the letter slot during non-business hours

2001

August 21: An employee on the verge of a dismissal should hand over the Corporation keys to our property, be sent home, an emergency meeting called as soon as possible for a decision on whether the employee in question should be dismissed or given another chance

2000

January 25: Fincastle Heights will no longer provide Life Insurance coverage for any Fincastle employee

1998

September 8: Who ever works in the office must contact all people who are late with operating payment by their second day late
February 10: The maintenance man on call will inspect the community building in between rentals on the weekend

1997

March 11: The Board will hire and fire employees
March 11: There will no longer be a gas allowance

1996

August 13: Fincastle will have a time clock and employees should have to punch in an out

1991

April 9: The Corporation will supply and install handrails where needed for medical reasons only on front porch steps at no cost to the resident

1990

October 9: No employee with one year’s service or more can be discharged without prior approval of the Board
October 9: An employee who is off for more than 30 days for any reason will not accumulate vacation pay or holiday pay while off
January 9: Employee handbook will be changed in regards to sick day benefits to read “cumulative up to 30 working days, non-payable upon termination or separation”

1988

April 12: From this date forward, on furnaces the galvanized duct work will be insulated when the furnace is installed

1987

March 24: The maintenance committee will inspect the porches and windows

1985

May 14: Fincastle will have our wrought iron rails and uprights pre-sprayed at the maintenance terminal; Fincastle will purchase a paint sprayer to do the job; possibly a wagon-type sprayer

1983

September 13: Any employee of Fincastle Heights who is under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs while on duty (including employees on call) is subject to immediate termination

1979

February 13: Employees would be given three days with pay when there was a death in the immediate family (mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter, husband or wife)

1977

September 27: If an employee is on standby duty on one of the six (6) official holidays, he will have one day added to his vacation

1974

April 9: The Manager and one or more Board members will accompany the regular Inspection Committee each time a vacated apartment is inspected; that they take pictures, if needed, and set a charge for materials and labor, if needed, to put the apartment in order, which charge will be withheld from the member’s equity (October 2, 2020 rule supersedes some of parts of this rule)

1970

August 26: A record of any and all improvements, additions, and replacements done in any apartment will be kept on file in each individual’s folder as a permanent record

1969

April 9: As soon as an apartment becomes vacant, and as soon as the men are available to work on it, that any structural repairs, such as, walls, ceilings and floors, be made before the new tenant moves in, if possible, because the apartment would look better and sell faster