Indiana Code 16-22-3-11. Permissible personnel programs and policies
(1) Adopt an employee benefit program that may include a vacation policy and employee discounts.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 16-22-3-11
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
(3) Expend hospital funds in an amount not to exceed one-half percent (0.5%) of hospital revenues for the preceding calendar year for a program that directly contributes to the productivity or morale of personnel, volunteers, or physicians. However, this subdivision does not apply to:
(A) an employee benefit program under subdivision (1); or
(B) an employee compensation arrangement, including a productivity bonus.
(4) Adopt a plan that provides for hospital employee sickness or accident disability and contract for and purchase insurance plans from an insurance company licensed to transact business in Indiana.
(5) Contract for and purchase adequate pension and retirement plans for hospital personnel from the Indiana public retirement system or from any company authorized to do such business in Indiana.
(6) Enter into deferred compensation agreements with employees and other contractual personnel and fund deferred obligations by contracting with insurance companies licensed to transact business in Indiana.
(7) Expend hospital funds to pay dues of the executive director and department heads for memberships in local, state, or national hospital or professional associations or organizations that the board determines are of direct benefit to the hospital.
(8) Establish and operate employee registries for part-time or temporary hospital employees.
(9) Pay a part or all of the costs of these plans out of hospital funds.
(10) Expend hospital funds for reasonable expenses incurred by persons and their spouses who are interviewed for employment or for medical staff appointment and for reasonable moving expenses for the persons and their spouses if employed or appointed to the hospital medical staff.
(11) Expend hospital funds, advance tuition payments, or establish a tuition refund program for the education or professional improvement of nurses and other professional or technical employees of the hospital for inservice training and attending seminars or other special courses of instruction when the board determines that the expenditures directly benefit the hospital.
(12) Conduct business in a state adjacent to Indiana.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-12.1-3-8 part; 16-12.1-3-9; 16-12.1-3-24 part.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.56-1995, SEC.7; P.L.35-1997, SEC.6; P.L.35-2012, SEC.100.