Common use of Wellness Pay Clause in Contracts

Wellness Pay. The City agrees that effective the pay period including October 1, 2019, employees in the unit will receive one half of one two percent (2.00.5%) each pay period of each employee’s annual base pay for wellness pay. Wellness pay is provided to employees to promote wellness. This includes, but is not limited to, purchase of gym memberships, physical fitness equipment, or medical exams or treatments designed to improve overall employee health. The City and the Association agree that this form of pay does not qualify as special compensation per Title 2 Section 571 or 571.1 and is therefore not pensionable. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2020, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2021, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1.5% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% (the 2020-2021 rate), employees in the unit will cost share (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2021. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 10.903% (a 0.6% increase), employees will cost share 0.3%. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12% (which is more than 1% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 0.5%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2022, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 2.0% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303%, (the 2020-2021 Rate) employees in the unit will cost share on an ongoing basis (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2022. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 11.503% (a 1.2% increase over the 2020-2021 rate), employees will cost share 0.6% on an ongoing basis. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12.5% (which is more than 2% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 1.0%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is lower than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share, on an ongoing basis, the amount they started to cost share at the beginning of the pay period including October 1, 2021, but it will not be reduced. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is higher than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share as described above effective October 1, 2022 on an ongoing basis, but not in addition to the amount of the cost share the employees will be paying beginning with the pay period including October 1, 2021. The maximum cost share an employee can pay effective October 1, 2022 is one percent (1.0%). If the Association ever informs the City that it no longer agrees to cost share, the employees’ wellness pay will be reduced by the same percentage as reduction in the cost share.

Wellness Pay. The City agrees that effective the pay period including October 1, City Council approval of this 2019-2023 MOU, employees in the unit will receive one half of one two percent (2.00.50.5%) each pay period of each employee’s annual base pay for wellness pay. Wellness pay is provided to employees to promote wellness. This includes, but is not limited to, purchase of gym memberships, physical fitness equipment, equipment or medical exams or treatments designed to improve overall employee health. The City and the Association agree that this form of pay does not qualify as special compensation per Title 2 Section 571 or 571.1 and is therefore not pensionable. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2020, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2021, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1.5% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% (the 2020-2021 rate), employees in the unit will cost share (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2021. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 10.903% (a 0.6% increase), employees will cost share 0.3%. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12% (which is more than 1% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 0.5%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2022, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 2.0% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303%, (the 2020-2021 Rate) employees in the unit will cost share on an ongoing basis (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2022. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 11.503% (a 1.2% increase over the 2020-2021 rate), employees will cost share 0.6% on an ongoing basis. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12.5% (which is more than 2% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 1.0%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is lower than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share, on an ongoing basis, the amount they started to cost share at the beginning of the pay period including October 1, 2021, but it will not be reduced. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is higher than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share as The payments described above effective October 1, 2022 herein shall be made on an ongoing basis, but not in addition to the amount of the cost share the employees will be paying beginning with the pay period including October 1, 2021. The maximum cost share an employee can pay effective October 1, 2022 is one percent (1.0%). If the Association ever informs the City that it no longer agrees to cost share, the employees’ wellness pay will be reduced by the same percentage as reduction in the cost share.

Wellness Pay. The City agrees that effective the pay period including October 1, 2019, employees in the unit will receive one half of one two percent (2.00.50.5%) each pay period of each employee’s annual base pay for wellness pay. Wellness pay is provided to employees to promote wellness. This includes, but is not limited to, purchase of gym memberships, physical fitness equipment, equipment or medical exams or treatments designed to improve overall employee health. The City and the Association agree that this form of pay does not qualify as special compensation per Title 2 Section 571 or 571.1 and is therefore not pensionable. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2020, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2021, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1.5% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% (the 2020-2021 rate), employees in the unit will cost share (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2021. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 10.903% (a 0.6% increase), employees will cost share 0.3%. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12% (which is more than 1% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 0.5%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2022, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 2.0% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303%, (the 2020-2021 Rate) employees in the unit will cost share on an ongoing basis (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2022. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 11.503% (a 1.2% increase over the 2020-2021 rate), employees will cost share 0.6% on an ongoing basis. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12.5% (which is more than 2% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall will cost share 1.0%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is lower than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share, on an ongoing basis, the amount they started to cost share at the beginning of the pay period including October 1, 2021, but it will not be reduced. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is higher than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share as described above effective October 1, 2022 on an ongoing basis, but not in addition to the amount of the cost share the employees will be paying pay beginning with the pay period including October 1, 2021. The maximum cost share an employee can pay effective October 1, 2022 is one percent (1.0%). If the Association ever informs the City that it no longer agrees to cost share, the employees’ wellness pay will be reduced by the same percentage as reduction in the cost share.

Wellness Pay. The City agrees that effective the pay period including October 1, 2019, employees in the unit will receive two one half of one two percent (2.00.5%) each pay period of each employee’s annual base pay for wellness pay. Wellness pay is provided to employees to promote wellness. This includes, but is not limited to, purchase of gym memberships, physical fitness equipment, equipment or medical exams or treatments designed to improve overall employee health. The City and SUP the Association agree that this form of pay does not qualify as special compensation per Title 2 Section 571 or 571.1 and is therefore not pensionable. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2020, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2021, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1.5% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% (the 2020-2021 rate), employees in the unit will cost share (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2021. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 10.903% (a 0.6% increase), employees will cost share 0.3%. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12% (which is more than 1% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 0.5%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2022, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 2.0% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303%, (the 2020-2021 Rate) employees in the unit will cost share on an ongoing basis (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2022. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 11.503% (a 1.2% increase over the 2020-2021 rate), employees will cost share 0.6% on an ongoing basis. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12.5% (which is more than 2% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall will cost share 1.0%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is lower than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share, on an ongoing basis, the amount they started to cost share at the beginning of the pay period including October 1, 2021, but it will not be reduced. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is higher than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share as described above effective October 1, 2022 on an ongoing basis, but not in addition to the amount of the cost share the employees will be paying pay beginning with the pay period including October 1, 2021. The maximum cost share an employee can pay effective October 1, 2022 is one percent (1.0%). If the Association ever informs the City that it no longer agrees to cost share, the employees’ wellness pay will be reduced by the same percentage as reduction in the cost share.

Wellness Pay. The City agrees that effective the pay period including October 1, 2019, employees in the unit will receive one half of one two percent (2.00.50.5%) each pay period of each employee’s annual base pay for wellness pay. Wellness pay is provided to employees to promote wellness. This includes, but is not limited to, purchase of gym memberships, physical fitness equipment, equipment or medical exams or treatments designed to improve overall employee health. The City and the Association agree that this form of pay does not qualify as special compensation per Title 2 Section 571 or 571.1 and is therefore not pensionable. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2020, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2021, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 1.5% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% (the 2020-2021 rate), employees in the unit will cost share (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 0.5% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2021. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 10.903% (a 0.6% increase), employees will cost share 0.3%. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12% (which is more than 1% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 0.5%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. Effective the pay period including October 1, 2022, the City agrees that employees in the unit will receive an additional one half of one percent (0.5%) (for a total of 2.0% of annual base pay) for wellness pay. However, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303%, (the 2020-2021 Rate) employees in the unit will cost share on an ongoing basis (in accordance with Government Code section 20516(f)) as follows: Classic Employees: One-half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of compensation earnable. New Members as defined by the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013: One- half (1/2) of the amount by which the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate exceeds 10.303% up to a maximum of 1.0% of pensionable compensation. This cost share would be effective the first day of the pay period including October 1, 2022. For example, if the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 11.503% (a 1.2% increase over the 2020-2021 rate), employees will cost share 0.6% on an ongoing basis. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate increases to 12.5% (which is more than 2% above the 2020-2021 rate), the employees shall cost share 1.0%, the maximum amount. Rate increases will be applied to the one thousandth of a percent. If there is rounding necessary, the City will round up. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is lower than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share, on an ongoing basis, the amount they started to cost share at the beginning of the pay period including October 1, 2021, but it will not be reduced. If the City’s Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate is higher than the City’s Fiscal Year 2021-2022 Employer Miscellaneous Normal Cost Rate, the employees will cost share as described above effective October 1, 2022 on an ongoing basis, but not in addition to the amount of the cost share the employees will be paying beginning with the pay period including October 1, 2021. The maximum cost share an employee can pay effective October 1, 2022 is one percent (1.0%). If the Association ever informs the City that it no longer agrees to cost share, the employees’ wellness pay will be reduced by the same percentage as reduction in the cost share.