An arbitrator has denied a grievance filed by a fired Marshfield police officer.
Jared Beauchamp’s employment was terminated after he failed the city’s mandatory annual fitness test for officers. Beauchamp wasn’t able to run a quarter-mile in two minutes, 15 seconds. He had passed all of the other requirements and he was the first officer to lose his job for that reason since the fitness test was put in place two years ago.
Arbitrator Raleigh Jones determined that the city went beyond what was required to give Beauchamp an opportunity to pass the test.
He had been employed by the department for about 20 years.
