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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