Access to Contracting Appointments and Safety and Orientation Trainings Sample Clauses

Access to Contracting Appointments and Safety and Orientation Trainings. The employer and its agents will take steps to consolidate contracting appointments into one (1) or two (2) designated days of the week, and will inform the Union of the designated days for each office. However, the parties acknowledge that in some cases due to emergent or unanticipated matters, individual providers may complete the tasks ordinarily covered in the contracting appointments outside of the designated day(s) for that particular office. In these‌ exceptional circumstances the State will, on at least a weekly basis, provide a list to the Union of employees that did not attend contracting appointments on designated days. The State will also provide fifteen (15) minutes for a Union representative to meet with the individual provider(s) participating in the contracting appointments. If the state office has regularly scheduled recurring times for individual providers to view the initial safety and orientation training, the State will make the Union aware of these reoccurring meetings on an annual basis. The State will also provide fifteen (15) minutes for a Union representative to meet with the individual provider(s).