Number
131169
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
130115
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution relating to the suspension of the implementation of the outcome-based component of the City's wellness program.
Analysis
The Common Council adopted Common Council Resolution File Number 130115 on July 23, 2013, directing the Department of Employee Relations, in cooperation with Workforce Health, to initiate an outcome-based wellness program, in which employees are eligible to receive a $150 Health Reimbursement Account award in early 2014, as an additional component of the City's wellness program.
This resolution directs the Department of Employee Relations to take the appropriate steps necessary to suspend the outcome-based component of the City's wellness program.
Body
Whereas, The City has provided, since late 2010, to all City employees and spouses a participatory wellness program, which includes lab work, an on-line questionnaire and an half-hour meeting with a health coach; and
Whereas, As an additional component of the City's wellness program the Common Council adopted Common Council Resolution File Number 130115 on July 23, 2013, directing the Department of Employee Relations, in cooperation with Workforce Health, to initiate an outcome-based wellness program in which employees are eligible to receive a $150 Health Reimbursement Account award in early 2014; and
Whereas, The City desires to suspend at this time the outcome-based component of the City's wellness program in light of the breach of information associated with Dynacare Laboratories and Workforce Health; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Employee Relations is directed to take the appropriate steps necessary to suspend the outcome-based component of the City's wellness program.
Requestor
Department of Employee Relations
Drafter
LRB150493-4
Jim Carroll
12/4/13