What is the definition of essential, non-essential or conditionally essential staff?
• Essential staff – employees who are considered responsible for basic minimum services and who are required to work when state services are temporarily reduced due to hazardous weather conditions. • Non-essential staff – employees who are not responsible for basic minimum services when state services are temporarily reduced due to hazardous weather conditions. • Conditionally essential staff – employees who are non-essential for all purposes except for activating events, at which time their status changes to essential. Examples of conditional essential staff include, but are not limited to, timekeepers when reduced services fall on the date of a payroll deadline or a child welfare specialist if notified that a child in his or her caseload requires immediate services. • If the services within the OKDHS office where I work is reduced for everyone except essential staff, how will I know whether I am considered essential or not? All staff are notified by their supervisor regarding their s
