Supervisors in local offices are responsible for managing and directing the employees of those offices in accordance with the Nebraska Judicial Branch Personnel Policies and Procedures. Supervisory staff are designated by the AOCP. Unless otherwise assigned, pursuant to Neb. Ct. R. § 6-1459. Presiding Judges, in consultation with the AOCP, the presiding judge bears the responsibility for the hiring, evaluating, and disciplining of the judicial administrator and/or clerk magistrate(s) of the judicial district in accordance with the Nebraska Judicial Branch Personnel Policies and Procedures.

  For purposes of these policies, supervisor means any Judicial Branch employee having supervisory authority in one or more of these areas: authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other Judicial Branch employees, or responsibility to direct them, adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with such action the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature but requires the use of independent judgment.

  Work leads are not supervisors but are authorized by their supervisors to direct the work or assign work to other Judicial Branch employees within the work leads’ job duties. 

  Supervisors have the authority to determine specific responsibilities of any position and make assignments or changes of duties within the constraints of the individual job descriptions. The supervisors are also responsible for other conditions of employment, including work schedules and working conditions.

  Supervisors are responsible for the application of these rules within their local offices and shall ensure that all employees comply with the provisions of these rules.

  Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 81-1373(1), Nebraska Judicial Branch Employees are exempt from collective bargaining.

Amended July 16, 2003; amended October 23, 2024, effective January 1, 2025.