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Health-related benefits
In accordance with the City of Reykjavík’s Employee Health Policy, certain health-related benefits are
available to all staff. The following health-related benefits are currently available:
Free access to swimming pools with the swim card
A swim card gives Reykjavík City employees free access to the swimming pools Árbæjarlaug, Breiðholtslaug, Dalslaug, Grafarvogslaug, Laugardalslaug, Klébergslaug, Sundhöll Reykjavíkur and Vesturbæjarlaug.
You can apply for a swim card after one month of employment, as long as you have a 3-month employment contract with a monthly salary or a 6-month contract with hourly pay.
Free access to museums and libraries with the Culture Pass
The Culture Pass rovides free access to all the main museums of Reykjavík. The card gives access to Kjarvalsstaðir, Hafnarhús, Ásmundarsafn, Árbæjarsafn, The Settlement Exhibition, The Reykjavík Museum of Photography and The Maritime Museum. The culture card is also a library card that is valid in all libraries of the City Library.
You can apply for a culture card after one month of employment, as long as you have a 3-month employment contract with a monthly salary or a 6-month contract with hourly pay.
Transportation contract guarantees a transport grant
Employees who do not travel by private car to work, at least 80% of the working days on average, are entitled to apply for a transportation contract. The contract guarantees the employee a transportation grant of ISK 7,500 a month.
A transportation contract can be made immediately upon signing the employment contract.
A fitness grant to support employee physical activity
Fitness grants are paid to compensate for costs related to fitness training at gyms, sports clubs and other entities that offer regular fitness training. Examples of subsidized fitness training are: yoga, dance, golf courses, karate, annual ski passes, etc. Full-time workers can receive ISK 28,000 annually, and those who are in a lower employment rate receive the same percentage of the grant. Regular hourly pay workers can receive ISK 5,000 annually.
You can apply for the fitness grant after 6 months of employment. Documents can be submitted at any time of the year, assuming that 12 months pass between grants. Payments follow the monthly salary payment and appear on the pay slip.
The employee support and counseling team
The City of Reykjavík offers its staff access to a support and counseling service aimed at helping employees with mental and social well-being.
This service is available at no cost to all City staff and does not require supervisor approval, except if employees need to visit the service during working hours and thus need time off.
The main role of the support and counseling team is to provide support interviews for individuals, but they also to work on prevention, by providing training and information about mental health and social well-being. The general guideline is that each individual can ask for 1-4 sessions with a counselor.
How do I apply?
More information in English about these health-related benefits and on how to apply for each one can be found on Fróði - the City of Reykjavík intraweb (English section).