DIGITAL SKILLS AND SECURING EMPLOYMENT Sample Clauses

DIGITAL SKILLS AND SECURING EMPLOYMENT. ‌ The main objective is to prepare our current and future workforce and enterprises with the appropriate skills by continuous learning, to reap the opportunities and deal with the challenges of the digital transformation in the world of work. The challenges and opportunities presented by digitalisation mean that social partners have a shared interest in facilitating access to quality and effective training and skills development while respecting the diversity and flexibility of training systems, which vary according to diverse industrial relations practices. This entails employers’ commitment to use digital technology positively, seeking to improve innovation and productivity, for the long-term health of enterprises, and for the employment security of the workforce and for better working conditions. Along with workers’ commitment to support the growth and success of enterprises and to recognise the potential role of digital technology, if enterprises are to remain competitive in the modern world. A key challenge social partners face is to determine which (digital) skills and change of processes are necessary to be introduced and, in consequence, to organise adequate training measures. This is valid for the national, sectoral and enterprise level, in line with the different national industrial relations systems. • There is a shared interest but different responsibility of employers and workers to contribute to upskilling and reskilling, leading to successful enterprises and high-quality public services and an appropriately skilled workforce. • Involvement of social partners at the appropriate level, as well as HR and line-managers and workers’ representatives and (European) works councils, in: motivating staff to take part in training, creating frameworks based on open communication, and in information, consultation and participation, in accordance with national industrial relations systems, should be promoted at all steps of the up-skilling process. • Social partners can play a supportive role for enterprises in their efforts to set up skills plans to accommodate ongoing and future changes. SMEs’ particular needs for support have to be taken into account. • Depending on the type of digital tools introduced and the specific national, sector and enterprise situation, a skill set that includes and combines technical, sector-specific skills, as well as a range of transversal and soft skills and competences like problem-solving capacity, critical thinking, coll...
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  • Retirement Gratuity Those employees who, on August 31, 2012, were eligible for a retirement gratuity shall have their accumulated sick days vested as of that date, up to the maximum eligible under the retirement gratuity plan.

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  • Fixed Term Employment (1) An employee and an employer may agree that the employment of the employee will end: (a) At the close of a specified date or period; or (b) On the occurrence of a specified event; or (c) At the conclusion of a specified project. (2) Before an employee and employer agree that the employment of the employee will end in a way specified in subsection (1) the employer must: (a) Have genuine reasons based on reasonable grounds for specifying that the employment of the employee is to end in that way; and (b) Advise the employee of when or how his or her employment will end and the reasons for his or her employment ending in that way. (3) The following reasons are not genuine reasons for the purpose of subsection (2)(a): (a) To exclude or limit the rights of the employee under the Employment Relations Act 2000; (b) To establish the suitability of the employee for permanent employment.

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