{"id":1866,"date":"2010-09-29T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/hr\/?page_id=1866"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:49:53","slug":"employee-handbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/reference\/employee-handbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Employee Handbook is a resource for information regarding policies, employment, benefits, payroll processing, and administration, and environmental health and safety as they relate to employment at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College. Violations of college policies may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Employee Handbook is a guide and is not intended to outline every policy and procedure.&nbsp;&nbsp;Questions regarding policy interpretation or administration should be directed to a member of the HR management team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/employment\/files\/2026\/05\/2026-Employee-Handbook-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Employee Handbook &#8211; 2026<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bates.edu\/dof\/faculty-handbook\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Faculty Handbook<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/here-to-help\/policies\/equal-opportunity-policy\">Equal Opportunity, Anti-Harassment, and Non-Discrimination Policy<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Handbook and Policy Contacts<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\">\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class=\"directory-result-name\">Patty A. Rooney<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class=\"directory-result-email\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/prooney@bates.edu\">prooney@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"directory-result-departmentWithTitle\"><span class=\"directory-result-title\">Associate Vice President for Human Resources<\/span><br><span class=\"directory-result-department\">Human Resources<\/span><br><a class=\"directory-result-phone\" href=\"tel:http:\/\/207-753-6935\">207-753-6935<\/a><br><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Employee Handbook is a resource for information regarding policies,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1866","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866\/revisions\/12887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}