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POLICY: TEAM MEMBER’S PERSONAL ITEMS Policy #54
CREATION DATE: September 2015
REVISION DATE: April 2017

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 2016
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Jack & Jill Children’s Center is not responsible for a team member's personal items brought to
any Jack & Jill Children’s Center facility or to any work-related field trip or training session.

Team members are discouraged from bringing personal items to the workplace. Work space
is provided for the team member to successfully complete the requirements of her or his
position. It is not intended to be treated as a display area for a team member's personal
possessions.

Team members are strictly prohibited from carrying any prescription and/or over the counter
medication on their person, in their purse or any work bag and/or keeping prescription and/or
over the counter medication in their classrooms. Team members requiring medication during
the work day must secure their medication in the location designated by the Early Childhood
Program Director. The only exception would be for rescue inhalers. Team members must
inform the Director that they are carrying a rescue inhaler throughout the facility. If any other
medical condition requires a team member to keep emergency medication on their person at
all times, the team member MUST present the Director with medical certification detailing the
need for medication to be immediately available. Jack & Jill Children’s Center will evaluate
these circumstances on a case by case basis. Jack & Jill Children’s Center will dialogue with the
team member and their certified health care provider to see if a reasonable accommodation can
be reached so as not to violate the above referenced licensing regulation while maintaining the
team member’s and children’s health and safety.

INSPECTION AND SEARCHES
The Jack & Jill Children’s Center program has the right to require team members, while on duty
or on Jack & Jill Children’s Center premises including parking lots, to agree to inspections of
personal property, vehicles, as well as the offices, desks, and file cabinets assigned to them. If
a team member withholds consent to such an inspection, the team member will be immediately
terminated.

Jack & Jill Children’s Center reserves the right to remove a team member’s personal
possession(s), which it deems inappropriate for the workplace.

A team member who is terminated will be given an opportunity to "clean out her or his desk."
Any personal property which may be in the work space will be packed and must be removed
by the team member at a convenient time to the team member and their supervisor. The
supervisor must supervise the team member when removing their personal items.

Team member may bring personal items related to a legitimate work purpose into the program.
These items include but are not limited to: resource books, curriculum supplement materials,
and/or classroom decorations. The items must be clearly labeled with the team member’s name
when they are initially brought into the Center.