From the 2017-2018 season to the present.
Email it to us at Evidence@SnowSportsInstructorWages.org
Email a description of what you have. Include some pictures if you can. Describe what type of records, for which seasons. We will review your message to determine if the paper evidence would be helpful enough to warrant either scanning or mailing to us for processing.
If your resort uses Proconnect, PPARs are the clearest statements of the time and wages paid to you for each day worked. These reports were emailed to you about a week after the end of each pay period. Since Vail says it cannot produce PPARs for any pay period before September 2025, we are asking all instructors to forward all emails from proconnect@vailresorts.com to us at Evidence@SnowSportsInstructorWages.org.
PPARs and the emails that delivered them (preferred):
Depending on your email system, you may be able to send us all the PPARs at once. To begin, search for all mail from proconnect@vailresorts.com. Select all the messages that it finds and click forward. Use Evidence@SnowSportsInstructorWages.org as the to address and click send.
If you only saved the PPARs but deleted the emails (still very useful):
Open a new email to Evidence@SnowSportsInstructorWages.org. Add the PDF PPARs as attachments. Click send!
They may submit PPARs and any other evidence to us via email.
Documents, notes, emails, texts, journals, diaries, spreadsheets, schedules, phone records, voice recordings, video recordings, screen recordings, calendar entries, photographs, pay stubs, screenshots, handbooks, manuals, information sheets, notes from meetings, timecards DirectConnect cases, PeopleConnect cases, Performance Reviews, “Write-ups”, class lists.
The amount of time you worked before and after lessons on a particular day or in general.
“Work” may include:
booking private lessons
planning or preparing for lessons
communicating with guests, supervisors or other instructors
checking weather
grooming or terrain reports
donning and doffing uniforms and equipment
attending “morning” or other meetings
teaching longer than the scheduled lesson time
filling out paperwork such as Epic Mix report cards or class lists
helping guests with their equipment or performing other guest services
reading Vail Resorts or ski school communications or policy manuals
time spent riding Company gondolas, lifts, shuttles, or buses.
That you were not paid for all the time you worked.
What you paid for equipment, clothes or accessories used while teaching.
That you used your computer or cell phone and its data plan for Vail.
Complaints you filed about Vail’s pay policies or practices.
That a ski school supervisor did not approve all the time you entered on a timecard, Smartsheet form, or “time punches” on any electronic time keeping system (Proconnect or Legion).
That you were persuaded or coerced by the Company or your ski school not to submit all the time you actually worked on a timecard, Smartsheet form or electronic time keeping system.
That the Company or ski school management or supervisors communicated required or recommended “default” times for punching in and punching out.
Pay policies and procedures that required or recommended “default” times for punching in and punching out, including times that were communicated orally at morning meetings, “new hire” or “returning instructor” training or other meetings.
That you suffered negative consequences such as “coaching” or "write-ups" or poor performance reviews because you submitted the time you actually worked on a timecard, Smartsheet form or electronic time keeping system.