Fitness Requirement Sample Clauses

Fitness Requirement. In 2009, the parties formed a joint labor/management committee to develop a minimum fitness requirement policy using the Public Safety Medical Service validation process. Labor and management have formally adopted the Incumbent Physical Work Performance Evaluation (IPWPE). IPWPE shall be department policy as determined by the labor management process. Public Safety Medical and the department physician shall oversee policy unless agreed upon by both parties.

Fitness Requirement. A. The University reserves the right to require officers to take medical examinations and to require officers who are physically or mentally unfit to perform their duties in a satisfactory manner to take unpaid leaves of absence. An officer shall be deemed unfit and placed on such a leave of absence only if a physical or mental examination performed by a medical doctor of the University's choice, at the University's expense, reveals such physical or mental unfitness or if an officer refuses to take a physical or mental examination when instructed to do so in writing by the Director of Public Safety. An officer who is found to be obese, but otherwise not unfit, shall be required to follow a physician-prescribed weight reduction plan and to reduce his/her weight to a non-obese level within the timetable prescribed by the doctor. If the obese officer fails to make reasonable progress toward and to achieve a non-obese weight within the prescribed timetable, the officer may, at the University's discretion, be placed on an unpaid leave in accordance with the provisions of this article. B. If an officer disagrees with a finding of physical or mental unfitness by the University- selected doctor, the officer may obtain a physical or mental examination from a medical doctor of the officer's choice at his/her own expense. Should there be a conflict in the findings of the two (2) doctors, the officer may request a physical or mental examination by a third doctor, who shall be selected by the officer's doctor from a list of five (5) names submitted by the University's doctor. The fee of the third doctor shall be paid by the University and his/her findings shall be binding on the officer, the University, and the Association. C. If an officer is found to be physically or mentally unfit and is placed on a leave of absence, the officer shall be eligible for sick leave, long-term disability, and other benefits to the extent available to the particular officer, provided the "unfitness" is the result of a condition such as would normally be covered by the University's sick leave and other insurance plans.