Au sein de mon club de kayak, en Bretagne, nous recherchons 2 moniteurs ou monitrices de canoë-kayak pour cet été, vous connaissez du monde que ça peut intéresser ?
Je peux fournir les offres d'emploi si besoin.

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I had a really nice conversation with my 16yo son last night. Like many teens, he is often reluctant to volunteer information to me and his mom. But he is doing more canoe trips this summer in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area at camp, and he told me he wished my dad was still alive so that he could talk to him about it.

My father died in in 2015 at the age of 80. He served his entire career as an English teacher at the same college prep school in Minneapolis. During the 60s and 70s (before I was born) he took groups of his student on canoe trips to the BWCA and Quetico wilderness areas, before this was a common thing to do. While we did lots of canoeing and fishing together, I never took a BWCA trip with my father.

I was a really nice moment to share memories of my father with my son. And now I'm crying at my desk first thing on a Monday morning! 😢 ❤️

#family #BWCA #Quetico #camping #canoe

BRIDGEND: Canoe polo champion wins £149,000 after boss made her drive overnight from Germany for a meeting he didn’t attend

A former canoe polo champion from Bridgend has been awarded almost £150,000 after a manager ordered her to drive overnight from Germany for a meeting he then failed to attend.

Beth Littlewood, 29, was working as a personal trainer at Nuffield Health’s Bridgend gym while competing for Great Britain when the dispute came to a head.

In September 2023, she was representing GB at the Canoe Polo European Championships in Germany when she was told to attend a meeting back in Bridgend at short notice.

Conscious that she was on a final written warning, Littlewood drove through the night — a round trip of hundreds of miles — to make sure she arrived on time.

When she reported to reception, she was told the manager who had called the meeting was not there. He was attending a training session elsewhere.

An employment tribunal in Cardiff later found in her favour on a series of complaints, awarding her £149,017 in compensation.

Employment Judge Samantha Moore was scathing about the missed meeting. She said that to refuse leave requested months earlier, knowing what competing meant to Littlewood, and then require her to attend a meeting and not turn up, was “contemptuous and wholly unreasonable.”

The tribunal heard Littlewood had worked as a personal trainer with Virgin Active from 2015 before transferring to Nuffield Health in Bridgend the following year.

Her grievances stretched back to 2022, and included a complaint she raised after a manager carried out a Ministry of Defence fitness test on someone with an elevated blood pressure reading.

She said that after she voiced concerns, three hours of pay a week were withheld from her, and she later lodged an internal bullying grievance that the company did not uphold.

In 2023 she was given a final written warning over an allegation that she had claimed inflated pay — an allegation the tribunal found to be false.

The judge said the disciplinary allegations should “never have been escalated to the degree they were,” and that it had been “wholly unreasonable” to accuse Littlewood of dishonesty over the pay rates for her classes.

The tribunal concluded that the company’s conduct had “fundamentally breached the implied term of mutual trust and confidence” between employer and employee.

The “last straw” of the no-show meeting led Littlewood to resign, and she represented herself throughout the tribunal process.

She has said the outcome matters beyond her own case, pointing to what the tribunal found was a miscalculation of her holiday pay — not worked out on a true average of her earnings or in line with government guidelines.

She hopes the published judgment can now help other personal trainers who believe their holiday pay has been wrongly calculated.

Littlewood’s sporting career has been remarkable in its own right. She was diagnosed with stage-three ovarian cancer at the age of 15, undergoing two years of treatment before returning to the sport and going on to win European gold for Great Britain in 2019.

A former member of Bridgend Sharks and a coach at Bridgend Canoe Club, she now runs her own personal training business and continues to compete and coach internationally.

Nuffield Health said it was “committed to providing a fair and supportive working environment for all colleagues, underpinned by clear policies and procedures.”

The company said it was disappointed with the decision and that, as the case was subject to appeal, it would not be appropriate to comment further.

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Taken this day, 2021: summertime and the living is easy... 🎵

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Chap dozing in the sunshine in his canoe, Union Canal, #Fountainbridge

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