LCMS Policies

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Accounting

  • Annual Audit
  • Anti-Terrorist Funding Policy
  • Bank Accounts & Investments
  • Contacts with IRS
  • Convention Assessment to Districts
  • Escheat Policy
  • GAAP Framework for Accounting & Financial Reporting
  • International Wire Transfer
  • LCMS Reimbursement Policy
  • LCMS Corporate Credit Card Policy
  • Missionaries Financial Policy
  • Spousal Travel Policy

Board of Directors

  • Engagement of Legal Counsel for the Synod
  • Initiating Litigation by the Synod or Corporate Synod
  • Responding to Litigation Brought Against the Synod or Corporate Synod

Business Services

  • Copy Center Functions
  • Copy Center Personal Copies
  • Shipping and Receiving Hours
  • Specific Mail Delivery Services
  • Truck Mail

Information Services

  • Immediate Severe Weather Action
  • IT’s Involvement Required in Purchase of IT Products Including Software, Hardware, Computers and Peripherals

Information Technology

  • Facility Systems Reports and Security

Facilities Management

  • Access Control and Key Issuance
  • Appliances and Power Cords in Work Areas
  • Building Appearance
  • Building Hours
  • Lost and Found
  • Office Furnishings
  • Paging System
  • Parking
  • Refrigerators
  • Snow and Ice Removal
  • Vehicle Registration

Purchasing

  • Authority to Commit to Purchases
  • Bid Requirements
  • Contracting for Products and Services
  • Financial Records Retention
  • Invoice Payment
  • Personal Purchases Through the Corporation
  • Purchase of Technology Products
  • Receiving Process
  • Use of Purchase Orders

Travel & Meeting Planning

  • Chapel Scheduling
  • Group Travel
  • Guests and Visitors to the 1333 Building
  • Hotel
  • Individual Air Travel
  • Appendix A (Gwins Corporate Travel Company)
  • Appendix B (Menno Travel Service)
  • Appendix C (Internet Travel Booking Sites)
  • Meeting Rooms and Meeting Support Services
  • Transportation

Human Resources

  • Accommodation Employment
  • Annual Adjustments to Ranges
  • Appointment of Interim Persons
  • Attendance
  • Benefits
  • Bonuses
  • Breaks
  • Call/Appointment Documents
  • Calling and Appointing “The Chief Executive” of Synod-wide Corporate Agencies
  • Calling and Appointing Senior Staff of Program Boards and Commissions
  • Cell Phones
  • Chapel
  • Concordia Disability and Survivor Plan
  • Concordia Health Plans
  • Concordia Retirement Plan
  • Departmental Celebration Activities
  • Disciplinary Procedures
  • Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
  • Document Destruction
  • Employee ID Badges at 1333
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Employing Other Personnel
  • Employment at Will
  • Employment of Relatives
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
  • Establishment of Wages
  • Exempt/Non-Exempt
  • Grievance Procedures
  • Harassment Prevention
  • Harassment Resolution Procedure
  • Holidays
  • Home Internet Services
  • Housing Allowance
  • Housing Assistance to Staff
  • IC Dress Code
  • Inclement Weather
  • Independent Contractors
  • Involuntary Terminations
  • Leave
  • Leave Sharing
  • Lunch Period
  • Military Leave
  • Minimum Wages
  • Normal Work Schedule
  • Offers of Employment
  • Off-Site Work by Non-Exempt Employees
  • Outside Employment
  • Overtime
  • Part-Time/Temporary Employees
  • Pay Advances
  • Pay Periods
  • Percentaged Employees
  • Performance Reviews
  • Performance Reviews for Chief Executives
  • Personnel Records
  • Position Classifications
  • Position Description
  • Position Evaluations
  • Prohibition of Violence
  • Promotions/Salary Adjustments
  • Recognition Awards for Board and Commission Members
  • Recognition of Service
  • Recording and Monitoring of Telephone Calls at the IC
  • Recruitment
  • Reference and Background Checks
  • Regular Full-Time Employees
  • Relocation
  • Salary Administration
  • Salary Ranges
  • Selection Process
  • Synod-wide Corporate Agencies Calling and Appointing Staff to Positions Requiring an Ordained or Commissioned Minister
  • Termination for Cause
  • Travel Accident Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Vacation
  • Voluntary Terminations
  • Voting Policy
  • Whistleblower Policy
  • Work Injuries
  • Working Conditions

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