MEMORANDUM TO: College supervisors and full-time employees
FROM: Chris Martin, Vice President of Finance & Administration
DATE: April 1, 2024
SUBJECT: Wellness Memo for SLCC full-time employees
Salt Lake Community College is committed to supporting the health, wellbeing, and vitality of our employees. Our wellness benefits are focused on helping you learn more about health and wellbeing, move better and do more, and building a greater sense of belonging. In keeping with this focus, SLCC is proud to offer full-time employees up to 180 minutes per week to engage in wellness related activities.
As has been our practice, with supervisor approval, full-time employees will be allowed up to 180 minutes per week to participate in Employee Wellness program(s), and/or HLAC or HLTH courses receiving the Lifelong Wellness (LW) designation. Depending on the employee’s wellbeing pursuits, the 180 minutes per week may include 120 minutes per week of released time for engaging in independent physical fitness or mental health activities. This plan provides the employee both flexibility and accountability to pursue personal wellness on released time.
Wellness activities are counted from the time the employee stops work duties until the time the work duties are resumed.
The employee must coordinate with their direct supervisor should they wish to have release time specifically for engaging in physical fitness or mental health activities that do not fall within the Employee Wellness scheduled programs or HLAC/HLTH courses offered. How these hours are implemented is between the department supervisor and the employee based on departmental needs.
An example of release time could be:
• Starting work time 30-60 minutes later than the employee’s regular schedule
• Adding 30-60 minutes to the lunch break
• Leaving work 30-60 minutes earlier than the employee’s regular schedule
For non-exempt employees, the wellness minutes per week will be counted as hours worked for computing overtime/compensatory time.
*Special note: not all of the wellness hours allowed by the wellness memo need to be used.
Rev. 03/15/2024
Examples of how to use Employee Wellness Time:
60 minutes for Employee Wellness Program on Monday
+ 60 minutes at LAC the last hour of day on Wednesday
+ 60 minutes at LAC the last hour of day on Friday
60 minutes for HLAC/HLTH class on Tuesday
60 minutes for HLAC/HLTH class on Thursday
+ 30 minutes added to lunch break on Monday & Wednesday
60 minutes for Employee Wellness Program on Tuesday
+ 45 minutes for Drop-in Yoga on Wednesday
+ Start work 60 minutes later than scheduled on Thursday in order to attend water aerobics at the community center
+ Depart work 60 minutes early on Wednesday for chronic disease self-management community program
+ Depart work 60 minutes early on Friday to hike
+ M, T, W, Th add 30 minutes to lunch break for walk, visit the Wellness Room, or stress reducing meditation
+ 60 minutes added to Lunch Break on Monday to spend in LAC
+ 60 minutes added to Lunch Break on Wednesday to spend in LAC
60 minutes for self-paced Employee Wellness Program on Tuesday
60 minutes for scheduled Employee Wellness Program on Wednesday
60 minutes for self-paced Employee Wellness Program on Thursday