Core Workforce Sample Clauses
The Core Workforce clause defines the essential group of employees or personnel who are critical to the performance of a contract or project. Typically, this clause specifies which roles or individuals are considered part of the core team, outlines their responsibilities, and may set requirements for their continuity or replacement. For example, it might require that certain key staff remain assigned to the project throughout its duration or that any changes to the core workforce receive prior approval. The main purpose of this clause is to ensure stability and consistency in project delivery by maintaining a dedicated and qualified team, thereby reducing the risk of disruption or loss of expertise.
Core Workforce. 7.9.1 The parties recognize the County's interest in promoting competition and inclusion of Local Small Business Enterprise {LSBE), Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE) and Social Enterprise (SE), which may not be signatory to a current MLA. In order to promote participation and attract certified LSBEs/DVBEs/SEs to work under this Agreement, any Employer that has been certified as an LSBE, DBVE or SE may first employ three (3) of its core employees prior to employing an employee through the appropriate Union hiring hall. The next (fourth) employee shall be hired from the appropriate union hiring hall and thereafter, such Employer may employ, as needed, two (2) additional core employees in the alternating manner provided in Section 7.9.2. Thereafter all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be requested and referred from the appropriate Union hiring hall. This Section 7.9.1 shall also apply to companies employing Building/Construction Inspectors and/or Field Soils and Material Testers {Inspectors) which are not directly signatory to a current MLA and who are providing Inspectors on a Covered Project through a contract directly with the County, whether or not that company is an LSBE, DBVE and SE.
7.9.2 Employers who are not certified as LSBE, DVBE or SE, and who are not otherwise signatory to a current MLA, may employ, as needed, first, a Core Employee, then an employee through a referral from the appropriate Union hiring hall, then a second Core Employee, then a second employee through the referral system, and so on until a maximum of five (5) Core Employees are employed, thereafter, all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be requested and referred from the appropriate Union hiring hall in accordance with this Article.
7.9.3 Except for certified LSBE, DVBE and SE, and Local Residents or Targeted Workers, in the laying off of employees, the number of Core Employees shall not exceed one-half plus one of the workforce for an Employer with ten ( I 0) or fewer employees, assuming the remaining employees are qualified to undertake the work available.
7.9.4 Section 7.9 only applies to Employers who are not directly signatory to a current MLA for the craft worker in its employ and is not intended to limit the transfer provisions of the MLA of any trade. As part of this process, and in order to facilitate the contract administration procedures, as well as appropriate fringe benefit fund coverage, all Employers shall r...
Core Workforce. The Parties acknowledge the significant investment and outcomes achieved by the University prior to the Commencement Date of the Agreement (as defined in clause 1.3.1) in the reduction of our reliance on Casual employment. Specifically, the Parties acknowledge that, based on the University’s best available assessment of its workforce data, Casual employment reduced from being around 17.6% of total full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in 2018 to being around 12% of total FTE positions in 2022. The University will continue to apply all reasonable endeavours to reduce the FTE proportion of Casual and Fixed-Term employment.
Core Workforce. In the event that a Contractor has his/her own core workforce, the Contractor may request by name, and the local will honor, referral of persons who have applied to the local union for Project work and who demonstrate the following four qualifications: 1.Possesses any license required by state or federal law for the Project work to be performed; 2.Has worked a total of at least one thousand (1,000) hours in the construction craft during the prior three (3) years; 3.Has been on the Contractor’s active payroll for at least 500 hours in the calendar year immediately prior to the contract award; and 4.Has the ability to perform safely the basic functions of the applicable trade. The Union will refer to such Contractor one journeyman employee from the hiring hall out-of-work list for each affected trade or craft, and will then refer one of such Contractor’s “core” employees as a journeyman and shall repeat the process, one and one, until such Contractor has hired seven (7) “core” employees, whichever occurs first. Thereafter, all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be hired exclusively from the hiring hall out-of-work list(s) Referral Agencies: Educational, training and construction worker advocacy organizations identified by the parties to the WSIPLA that shall assist the Contractors and the parties to the WSIPLA in identifying and preparing workers for entrance and referral to construction employment opportunities with WSIP projects. (A list of participating Referral Agencies can be found in Attachment 4 of this document.) WSIP: Water System Improvement Program, the $4.3 billion capital program to renovate and upgrade the Hetch Hetchy water delivery system owned and operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The program includes approximately 85 projects spanning six San Francisco Bay Area Counties, scheduled for completion in 2015.