Common use of Training During Working Hours Clause in Contracts

Training During Working Hours. Employees required by the Company to take training during their normal working hours will be paid their regular rate of pay while in training. In this article, the use of the word "training" is meant to encompass both on-the-job classroom instruction. Training Outside Normal Working Hours Employees required by the Company to take training outside their normal working hours will be cornpensated at their regular rate of pay while in training, except that on any day when the Company requires employees to take training in addition to working their regular assignment, they shall be cornpensated for all such combined time, in excess of eight hours, at punitive rates. Voluntary Training Where training facilities are provided by the Company on a voluntary basis an employee taking advantage of such training will not be compensated. The Company shall have training courses which will be sufficient to allow the employees opportunities to upgrade their knowledge and skills when it is known a permanent position will become vacant or there is a need to qualify additional employees for a given position. Applications for training will be invited and bulletins will be posted as locally arranged for employees covered under this Agreement for a period of not less than calendar days in January of each year and thereafter when necessary. The bulletin will contain all pertinent information, such as type of .course, hours, duration and location of courses. Applicants will be considered in seniority order provided they have the suitability and adaptability to fill the positions. For the purpose of an employee being absent, the provisions of Paragraph will apply, provided that the training course has not yet commenced. Time spent in training will be considered for all intents and purposes as time worked. Employees presently in the service of the Company who have the suitability and adaptability will be considered for training before a person not already in the employ of the Company. When trained for more than days, employees who have successfully completed training for work in a certain classification may be required to remain on a position or cover work in such classification for a maximum period of shifts. When an employee is the successful applicant to a higher-rated position bulletined in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph and is not permitted to immediately assume such position as a result of being required, at any time during the shifts referred to above, to remain on another position or cover work in a certain classification, such employee will be compensated at the higher rate of pay during such time. Upon being released, the employee may be required to assume such higher-rated position. Provided they have the suitability and adaptability to perform the work, employees required to exercise their seniority in accordance with Article and who would otherwise be unable to hold work at their terminal will, upon request, be trained for the permanent position held by the junior employee at their own level of pay; or lower level of pay; or where an employee required to exercise his seniority in accordance with the above is on a position at a lower level rate of pay than a level H position, they may displace up to a level H position inclusive. The junior employee displaced will be required to exercise seniority in accordance with Article and, if otherwise unable to hold work at the terminal, will be trained, upon request, for the permanent position held by the junior employee at the terminal. Employees trained under this Paragraph for work in a certain classification may be required to remain on a position or cover work in such classification for a maximum period of Employees designated to train others by direction of the appropriate Company for one hour or more during a shift, will receive a trainer's allowance of per hour spent training. The Company may designate those employees who will provide such training. Employees required to attend training at other than their home terminal will be allowed necessary actual expenses, in accordancewith the provisions of Article