Common use of Employee Training Program Clause in Contracts

Employee Training Program. The Company and Union recognize the importance of providing training opportunities for all employees so that they can handle technological changes and/or improve their and allow the opportu- nity to advance to jobs of greater responsibility and higher Because of changing conditions and in particular technological changes, new approaches to employee training may be required. This being recognized, the Company will undertake to introduce a train- ing program wherever necessary. The purpose of this training program is to meet the training needs and as these need program may have to modified. The Company and the Union agree that better cross training for jobs is necessary to ensure a more viable and competitive operation. The parties agree to implement training whenever production requirements permit, with the understanding that this can only be accom- plished while maintaining consistency and efficiency throughout the plant as well as having and enthusiasticworkforce. The Company wel- comes any suggestions on training from the Union at any time and agrees to meet periodically throughout the term of the Collective Labour Agreement in order to explore any new ideas or techniques. employees in the trades department are subject to all the provisions of the collective agreement, except as specif- ically provided in the trades section. trades for the purpose of this agreement shall be those trades clas- sifications listed below: and others as agreed upon by the parties. The term journeyperson as used in this agreement shall mean any person: who presently holds a journeypersons classification in the trades occupation as listed above or who has served a bona fide apprenticeship of four (4) years hours or five (5) years hours and holds a which substantiates their claim of such service, or; who has eight (8) years of practical experience in the trades or classification in which they claims journeypersons designation and can prove same. A CAW journeypersons card will be accepted as proof in conjunction with a Ministry of and development certificate. Any further employment in the trades occupations as listed above, after signing of this agreement, shall be limited to journeypersons and apprentices: senioritylists shall be maintained by basic trades and seniorityshall be non-interchangeablewith other trades; present employees in any trade classification prior to October shall have their total seniority applied in such trades classification, Employees entering a trades classification after September shall have senioritydate established as of the date of entry in such Separate senioritylist for each plant; a production employee will not exercise their seniority in any trades classification, nor will any skilled trades employee exercise sen- iority in any production classification. In the event of a reduction of workforce in the trades department, employees will be laid off from their respective groups, in accordance with the following procedure; probationary employees apprentices In the event of a reduction in the workforce in any of the skilled trades classification, the individual affected will be laid off from the plant except for an apprentice who, if laid off, may exercise their total master seniori- ty including time serving apprenticeship. In the event of recall from layoff, the tradesperson only be eligible to recall to the group from which they was laid off. In the event of the abolition of a particular trade, the Company and the Union will meet to discuss the bumping of the abolished trades- man into the remaining trade. It is agreed and understood that it may not be possible to accomplish integration due to seniority and/or Should a skilled trades employee become medically unfit and unable to follow their trade, both the Company and the Union will cooperate in endeavoring to place such employee on a job they are capable of per- forming in accordance with and they will carry their total plant wide seniorityto such job. In the event that an employee removed from a trades classification is subsequently cleared to return to such classification, they will be returned with no loss of seniority provided they exercises such election within fourteen (14) days of receipt of medical clearance.