Wellness Strategy

During the Corporate Values review process in 2007, employees identified strongly that wellness was important to them; thus resulting in it becoming one of the organization’s new values. The City’s People Practices Strategy has further identified what is required to work toward to achieve a well workplace. Several objectives and proposed actions were established, including “A wellness strategy that addresses the physical, social and psychosocial needs of employees, and maintains and enhances the current commitment to employee health, safety and wellness.”

Goals

The wellness strategy will:

• Support the City’s strategic plan Objective 5.6 – “Organizational excellence in planning, management, human resources and people practices, recognized as a top employer in the community”
• Assist the organization to deliver on its Corporate Value promise of wellness for our people
• Provide employees with opportunities to demonstrate the behaviours associated with the Corporate Value of Wellness
• Contribute to, complement and build upon the efforts of other City programs to realize:
  • Improved employee morale, engagement and productivity
  • Enhanced organizational culture
  • Health benefit cost containment
  •  Reduced absenteeism and turnover

Tactics

Programs, activities and services will be delivered by established committees (e.g. Joint Health and Safety, Recognition, Wellness) and human resources staff to address each of the behaviours associated with the Corporate Value of wellness as follows.