SELF-SELECTED TRAINING Clause Samples

SELF-SELECTED TRAINING. After nine months of employment, the individual employee is entitled to two weeks of time off per year – allocated with consideration for the needs of the company – for continuing vocational training of relevance to employment within the scope of the Shop Workers’ Collective Agreement, provided that there is a commitment for a grant for the training or for the company. Employees whose employment is terminated due to restructuring, cut backs, company closures or other circumstances on the part of the company and who have at least six months’ service with the company are entitled to an additional week off during the notice period with grants in accordance with the rules in paragraph 1. Under the same conditions, the employee is also entitled to make use of remaining time off with support from the ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Skills Development Fund for up to two weeks. The employee is entitled to save the entitlement to time off for self-selected training for up to three years. However, the accumulated weeks may not be used if the employee is under notice of termination, unless the company and the employee have agreed this or agreed otherwise. The oldest weeks must be taken first. The opportunity to take long-cycle self-selected training courses is conditional on there being adequate resources in the skills development fund. The current rules also apply to companies that administer their own skills development fund resources, cf. section 5 in the Agreement on the Skills Development Fund, page 88. The accumulated entitlement to self-selected training cannot be carried over to another job. The company shall pay a sum equivalent to DKK 400.00 per year per full-time employee covered by the collective agreement in accordance with the detailed guidelines in the Agreement on the Skills Development Fund. For part-time employees, this amount shall be reduced pro rata. Employees can apply to the ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Skills Development Fund for a training grant. Grants cannot be given for training if the employee receives a full or partial wage. Companies with training committees can set up a skills development fund at the company in accordance with the detailed guidelines in the Agreement on the Skills Development Fund.