Fitness and Wellness. Employees may request modified work schedules that permit the Employee administrative leave for up to two (2) hours total per week for fitness and wellness activities. Time needed for travel, taking showers, changing clothes and/or eating lunch must be considered and should be included in the modified work schedule. Employees may elect to forego a scheduled period of fitness and wellness activity. However: • Missed fitness and wellness time may not be accumulated and taken during subsequent weeks; • Missed fitness and wellness time may not be added onto fitness and wellness activities during the same work week; and, • Missed fitness and wellness time may be made up at another time during the same work week provided written approval from supervisor is obtained. Fitness and wellness activities will not count toward the earning of FLSA Overtime or State Compensatory Time. The Employer is not required to consider a request for a schedule change to participate in the fitness and wellness program more frequently than every ninety (90) days for any participant. Requests to participate in the fitness and wellness program are approved for one (1) year at a time. Requests will be considered each year in January. If an Employee’s initial request is approved in the middle of a year, the Employee must renew the Employee’s request the following January. Employees approved for fitness and wellness activities are responsible for notifying the Employer should they cease to engage, on a regular basis, in their fitness and wellness activities on the days specified on their fitness and wellness request. Performance deficiency, unsatisfactory attendance and timeliness, and disciplinary actions may be grounds for denial or rescission of fitness and wellness activities. Operational needs and job duties may also be grounds for denial or recession of fitness and wellness activities. Once an Employee submits the Request to Participate in Fitness and Wellness Program form, the Employer is expected to reach a decision and communicate it to the Employee pursuant to the Employer policy.
Fitness and Wellness. The Employer recognizes the physical nature of Firefighting and agrees to provide for fitness activity time and access to equipment during the regular shift schedule of all employees, providing that same does not in the judgment of the Fire Chief impair emergency operations in any way.
Fitness and Wellness. The Employer recognizes the physical nature of fire fighting and agrees to provide for fitness activity time and access to equipment during the regular shift schedule of all employees, providing that same does not in the judgment of the Fire Chief impair emergency operations in any way. The parties agree that the Labour Management Committee will manage the Employee Wellness Program collaboratively, based on the following principles: • The Employer and the Union will share equally the cost of a capital program for the purpose of purchasing of additional exercise equipment, based on the Labour Management Committee’s recommendations. The Employer agrees to remit to the Union a payroll deduction from each employee to fund the cost of the capital program. These funds shall form the basis of the Union’s contribution that is to be matched by the Employer. The Employer agrees to include the Labour Management Committee’s recommended purchase in the capital budget for new fire station construction in the future; the Union will not participate in the funding of those purchases. • The Employer agrees to be responsible for all costs associated with the maintenance and replacement of exercise equipment identified and associated with the Labour Management Committee recommendations. • The Labour Management Committee will be responsible to develop, implement and manage a program designed to increase employees’ awareness of wellness, and improve and maintain the overall fitness of the unionized work force.
