Common use of Apprentice Agreement Clause in Contracts

Apprentice Agreement. A written apprenticeship agreement will be executed between the COMPANY and each apprentice (if he/she is under twenty-one (21) years of age his/her parents or guardian shall be required to sign) entering the Apprenticeship Program. A sample of this agreement is attached. ADMINISTRATION The apprentices may be moved from job to job within their crafts in accordance with the schedule of work experience outlined in these Standards. The Craft Supervisor will keep records of work performed by each apprentice showing the time spent on jobs and the quality and progress of the work performed. The Human Resources Department will keep a record of the progress of each apprentice, both on the job and in the classroom and shall keep Management and the Joint Apprenticeship Committee informed of the same. Likewise, apprentices shall be responsible for tracking hours worked in each training category on a regular and ongoing basis and ensuring that the total training hours logged in each category are consistent with the requirements of the apprenticeship program. Apprentices are responsible for taking the initiative to consult with the Apprentice Training Supervisor and the Apprentice Job Instructor as frequently as is needed to ensure that assignments and hours worked are properly distributed among the various apprentice training categories to adequately prepare the apprentice for interim and final examinations. No merit increase will be retroactive. Only one probation will be allowed and that period shall not exceed six (6) months. If an apprentice fails to satisfy the requirements of his/her probation, his/her Apprenticeship Agreement will be terminated, and if his/her Apprenticeship Agreement is terminated his/her employment will be terminated. If probation is for poor related classroom performance, this period will be added to the end of the apprentice's program. If this extended work is not completed, the employee will be terminated. Termination outside of the new-hire one-hundred thirty-five (135) day probationary period will be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedure. If the apprentice shows a lack of interest or does not appear to have the ability to become a craft person, the apprentice may be permitted to continue in a probationary status, repeat specified process or to have his/her apprentice agreement terminated and should his/her apprentice agreement be terminated his/her employment will be terminated. EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS The Human Resources Department will consult with local school authorities in order to assist in providing for trade science and related trade information classes which are to be attended by each apprentice outside of normal working hours. The Human Resources Department will prepare and secure signatures on apprenticeship agreements and register the agreement with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. TERMS OF APPRENTICESHIP The terms of apprenticeship will be eight thousand (8,000) hours of reasonably continuous employment for four (4) years or as may be specified for particular crafts. CREDIT FOR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Before a new employee has passed the one-hundred thirty-five (135) day probationary period the apprentice representatives from the COMPANY and the craft involved shall meet and agree to the amount of credit, if any, to be given toward completion of the required hours of the apprenticeship program. The amount of credit shall be based on past experience and training and subjects related to the craft in which the apprentice is entering the training. PROBATIONARY PERIOD The first one-hundred thirty-five (135) days shall be a probationary period. During this probationary period the apprentice will be very carefully checked to determine his/her fitness to continue the training. Should it become evident that he/she does not have the necessary qualifications to continue successfully, he/she will be promptly released from apprenticeship LAYOFFS If a general reduction in force becomes necessary because of reduced production requirements (or for any another reason beyond the control of the COMPANY or the Apprentice), the layoff of an apprentice is to be effected in accordance with the existing seniority provisions and pertinent portions of COMPANY -- UNION Contract, his/her Apprentice Agreement will be automatically suspended but not canceled. Further, it is mutually agreed that no new apprentice will be hired into any craft while there are journey persons in that craft on the recall list. 77 EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS SCHEDULING OF BASIC WORK EXPERIENCE The apprentice shall be given such experience and instruction as will qualify him/her as a journey person in the trade. Flexibility in the time spent on each activity is permissible on the basis of the apprentice's ability to grasp the skill. Vacations will be counted as hours worked. Extended illness or leaves of absences will be looked at on a case by case basis but may extend the apprentice period. Dependent upon the COMPANY's production requirements, rate of operation, work load or the ability of the apprentice, the distribution of time may deviate from the following listings. The schedule for each craft is set forth as follows: ASBESTOS WORKER --------------- Use and care of tools 100 Identification of hot materials 400 Application of hot materials 2900 Curved and flat surfaces Pipe surfaces Cement and finish exterior Cement and finish interior Use and care of tools 100 Identification of cold materials 500 Application of cold materials 2000 Curved and flat surfaces Pipe surfaces Finished, flat and curved surfaces Interior, Exterior Finish, piping Interior, Exterior Stripping and sealing cold surfaces 800 Equipment Piping Cement and masonry 960 Estimation of material per job 200 Safety Asbestos Handling - Specific Procedures 40 TOTAL 8,000 ----- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS CARPENTER --------- Use and care of hand tools 200 Scaffolds and rigging 2500 Building and setting concrete forms 1000 Shoring and bracing 500 Driving sheet piling 500 Installing transite roofing siding 700 Repair of cooling towers 1000 Blueprints and sketching 700 Use and care of power tools 700 Crating 200 Cabinet making 0 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8000 ----- NOTE: Welding -- at COMPANY's option a limited number of highly qualified individuals will be trained as certified welders in lieu of specialized Boilermaking EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS INSTRUMENT/ELECTRICAL WORKER ---------------------------- Safety -- JSA preparation SP bulletins work habits OSHA (Continuous) 1910.119 Class A Use of hand tools (Continuous) Rigging (Continuous) Use of test equipment (Continuous) Ordering material from stores (Continuous) Conduit Repair 300 Lighting -- relamping, blast repair, finding shorts, and new 500 installations Control Wiring -- Tracing, repair, and troubleshooting 500 Splicing wire -- 480 & 120V 50 Power wire 500 Motor troubleshooting 100 Motor controls 500 Understanding schematics, loops, wiring diagrams, one lines, 750 P&ID, and layouts Troubleshooting relays PLC's timers 500 Medium voltage equipment 1000 Splicing cables, transformers, switch gear, capacitors, test 0 equipment, and motors UPS systems and variable speed drives 200 Interlocks, alarms, shutdown switches, and sequential events 400 recorders N.E.C. -- grounding, explosion proof equipment 200 Fuses and circuit breakers 200 Repair and calibration of electronic equipment PC boards, 0 power supplies, digital controllers Control Valve and Shop Repair - actuators, positioners, I/Ps, 1000 limit switches, bench set, assembly, disassembly Transmitter repair, calibration, and troubleshooting with 1950 pneumatic, electronic, and digital instruments; temperature, flow, level, pressure, pH, and conductivity instruments and power supplies I/E System troubleshooting 1000 Loop tuning 150 DCS, and digital controller configuration 100 Preparing calibration control charts 100 TOTAL 10000 ----- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS IRONWORKERS ----------- Use and care of tools JOB Layouts, blueprints, and sketching CLASS Erection of steel COMBINED Burning and welding WITH Using chain falls, chokers, heavy equipment, crane signaling BOILERMAKER Fabricating steel (to include bending, rolling, and shaping steel and associated metals and use of shop equipment) Riggings -- including equipment and handling Reinforcing steel Safety TOTAL N/A --- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS PAINTERS -------- Use and care of tools 500 Materials 1500 Use and preparation, proper mixing, and matching colors 0 Sign painting 500 Exterior painting 1000 Interior painting 1000 Spray painting and spray painting equipment 1000 Wood and steel frame glazing 500 Paint coking 200 Rigging necessary for jobs 300 Stage and boatswain chair 0 Estimate materials 500 Use of sand blasting equipment 1000 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8000 ---- NOTE: At COMPANY's option, welding will be given to a limited number of selected individuals who would spend one-half year in the welding department. This training to be in lieu of specialized pipe fitting training and will not extend length of apprenticeship. EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS OPERATING ENGINEER ------------------ Maintenance procedures 500 Care of engines and motors 500 Cables and rigging 500 Hoisting equipment 4500 Bulldozers 1500 Road maintenance equipment 500 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8,000 ------ Each apprentice will attend classes in related instruction for a minimum of one hundred forty-four (144) hours per year for each year of his/her apprenticeship. If these classes are conducted at hours other than the scheduled working hours of the apprentice, these hours shall not be considered as hours of work, nor shall wages be paid for them. The COMPANY will pay the cost of tuition for local specified trade courses on an equivalent amount toward the tuition for a course containing pertinent material accepted as related training. Materials, books, tools, and instruments required for classroom instruction shall be provided by the COMPANY. Failure of the apprentice to attend regularly or to satisfactorily complete the assigned work shall be considered sufficient reason for the termination of his/her apprentice contract. NUMBER OF APPRENTICES TO BE EMPLOYED

Apprentice Agreement. A written apprenticeship agreement will be executed between the COMPANY Company and each apprentice (if he/she is under twenty-one (21) years of age his/her parents or guardian shall be required to sign) entering the Apprenticeship Program. A sample of this agreement is attached. ADMINISTRATION The apprentices may be moved from job to job within their crafts in accordance with the schedule of work experience outlined in these Standards. The Craft Supervisor will keep records of work performed by each apprentice showing the time spent on jobs and the quality and progress of the work performed. The Human Resources Department will keep a record of the progress of each apprentice, both on the job and in the classroom and shall keep Management and the Joint Apprenticeship Committee informed of the same. Likewise, apprentices shall be responsible for tracking hours worked in each training category on a regular and ongoing basis and ensuring that the total training hours logged in each category are consistent with the requirements of the apprenticeship program. Apprentices are responsible for taking the initiative to consult with the Apprentice Training Supervisor and the Apprentice Job Instructor as frequently as is needed to ensure that assignments and hours worked are properly distributed among the various apprentice training categories to adequately prepare the apprentice for interim and final examinations. No merit increase will be retroactive. Only one probation will be allowed and that period shall not exceed six (6) months. If an apprentice fails to satisfy the requirements of his/her probation, his/her Apprenticeship Agreement will be terminated, and if his/her Apprenticeship Agreement is terminated his/her employment will be terminated. If probation is for poor related classroom performance, this period will be added to the end of the apprentice's program. If this extended work is not completed, the employee will be terminated. Termination outside of the new-hire one-hundred thirty-five (135) day probationary period will be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedure. If the apprentice shows a lack of interest or does not appear to have the ability to become a craft person, the apprentice may be permitted to continue in a probationary status, repeat specified process or to have his/her apprentice agreement terminated and should his/her apprentice agreement be terminated his/her employment will be terminated. EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS The Human Resources Department will consult with local school authorities in order to assist in providing for trade science and related trade information classes which are to be attended by each apprentice outside of normal working hours. The Human Resources Department will prepare and secure signatures on apprenticeship apprentice ship agreements and register the agreement with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training. TERMS OF APPRENTICESHIP The terms of apprenticeship will be eight thousand (8,000) hours of reasonably continuous employment for four (4) years or as may be specified for particular crafts. CREDIT FOR PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Before a new employee has passed the one-hundred thirty-five (135) day probationary period the apprentice representatives from the COMPANY Company and the craft involved shall meet and agree to the amount of credit, if any, to be given toward completion of the required hours of the apprenticeship program. The amount of credit shall be based on past experience and training and subjects related to the craft in which the apprentice is entering the training. PROBATIONARY PERIOD The first one-hundred thirty-five (135) days shall be a probationary period. During this probationary period the apprentice will be very carefully checked to determine his/her fitness to continue the training. Should it become evident that he/she does not have the necessary qualifications to continue successfully, he/she will be promptly released from apprenticeship LAYOFFS If a general reduction in force becomes necessary because of reduced production requirements (or for any another reason beyond the control of the COMPANY or the Apprentice), the layoff of an apprentice is to be effected in accordance with the existing seniority provisions and pertinent portions of COMPANY -- UNION Contract, his/her Apprentice Agreement will be automatically suspended but not canceled. Further, it is mutually agreed that no new apprentice will be hired into any craft while there are journey persons in that craft on the recall list. 77 EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS SCHEDULING OF BASIC WORK EXPERIENCE The apprentice shall be given such experience and instruction as will qualify him/her as a journey person in the trade. Flexibility in the time spent on each activity is permissible on the basis of the apprentice's ability to grasp the skill. Vacations will be counted as hours worked. Extended illness or leaves of absences will be looked at on a case by case basis but may extend the apprentice period. Dependent upon the COMPANY's production requirements, rate of operation, work load or the ability of the apprentice, the distribution of time may deviate from the following listings. The schedule for each craft is set forth as follows: ASBESTOS WORKER --------------- Use and care of tools 100 Identification of hot materials 400 Application of hot materials 2900 Curved and flat surfaces Pipe surfaces Cement and finish exterior Cement and finish interior Use and care of tools 100 Identification of cold materials 500 Application of cold materials 2000 Curved and flat surfaces Pipe surfaces Finished, flat and curved surfaces Interior, Exterior Finish, piping Interior, Exterior Stripping and sealing cold surfaces 800 Equipment Piping Cement and masonry 960 Estimation of material per job 200 Safety Asbestos Handling - Specific Procedures 40 TOTAL 8,000 ----- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS CARPENTER --------- Use and care of hand tools 200 Scaffolds and rigging 2500 Building and setting concrete forms 1000 Shoring and bracing 500 Driving sheet piling 500 Installing transite roofing siding 700 Repair of cooling towers 1000 Blueprints and sketching 700 Use and care of power tools 700 Crating 200 Cabinet making 0 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8000 ----- NOTE: Welding -- at COMPANY's option a limited number of highly qualified individuals will be trained as certified welders in lieu of specialized Boilermaking EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS INSTRUMENT/ELECTRICAL WORKER ---------------------------- Safety -- JSA preparation SP bulletins work habits OSHA (Continuous) 1910.119 Class A Use of hand tools (Continuous) Rigging (Continuous) Use of test equipment (Continuous) Ordering material from stores (Continuous) Conduit Repair 300 Lighting -- relamping, blast repair, finding shorts, and new 500 installations Control Wiring -- Tracing, repair, and troubleshooting 500 Splicing wire -- 480 & 120V 50 Power wire 500 Motor troubleshooting 100 Motor controls 500 Understanding schematics, loops, wiring diagrams, one lines, 750 P&ID, and layouts Troubleshooting relays PLC's timers 500 Medium voltage equipment 1000 Splicing cables, transformers, switch gear, capacitors, test 0 equipment, and motors UPS systems and variable speed drives 200 Interlocks, alarms, shutdown switches, and sequential events 400 recorders N.E.C. -- grounding, explosion proof equipment 200 Fuses and circuit breakers 200 Repair and calibration of electronic equipment PC boards, 0 power supplies, digital controllers Control Valve and Shop Repair - actuators, positioners, I/Ps, 1000 limit switches, bench set, assembly, disassembly Transmitter repair, calibration, and troubleshooting with 1950 pneumatic, electronic, and digital instruments; temperature, flow, level, pressure, pH, and conductivity instruments and power supplies I/E System troubleshooting 1000 Loop tuning 150 DCS, and digital controller configuration 100 Preparing calibration control charts 100 TOTAL 10000 ----- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS IRONWORKERS ----------- Use and care of tools JOB Layouts, blueprints, and sketching CLASS Erection of steel COMBINED Burning and welding WITH Using chain falls, chokers, heavy equipment, crane signaling BOILERMAKER Fabricating steel (to include bending, rolling, and shaping steel and associated metals and use of shop equipment) Riggings -- including equipment and handling Reinforcing steel Safety TOTAL N/A --- EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS PAINTERS -------- Use and care of tools 500 Materials 1500 Use and preparation, proper mixing, and matching colors 0 Sign painting 500 Exterior painting 1000 Interior painting 1000 Spray painting and spray painting equipment 1000 Wood and steel frame glazing 500 Paint coking 200 Rigging necessary for jobs 300 Stage and boatswain chair 0 Estimate materials 500 Use of sand blasting equipment 1000 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8000 ---- NOTE: At COMPANY's option, welding will be given to a limited number of selected individuals who would spend one-half year in the welding department. This training to be in lieu of specialized pipe fitting training and will not extend length of apprenticeship. EXHIBIT C APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENTS OPERATING ENGINEER ------------------ Maintenance procedures 500 Care of engines and motors 500 Cables and rigging 500 Hoisting equipment 4500 Bulldozers 1500 Road maintenance equipment 500 Safety (Continuous) TOTAL 8,000 ------ Each apprentice will attend classes in related instruction for a minimum of one hundred forty-four (144) hours per year for each year of his/her apprenticeship. If these classes are conducted at hours other than the scheduled working hours of the apprentice, these hours shall not be considered as hours of work, nor shall wages be paid for them. The COMPANY will pay the cost of tuition for local specified trade courses on an equivalent amount toward the tuition for a course containing pertinent material accepted as related training. Materials, books, tools, and instruments required for classroom instruction shall be provided by the COMPANY. Failure of the apprentice to attend regularly or to satisfactorily complete the assigned work shall be considered sufficient reason for the termination of his/her apprentice contract. NUMBER OF APPRENTICES TO BE EMPLOYED.