EMPLOYEE REQUESTED COURSES - NO ABSENCE FROM WORK. Where an employee requests permission from his/her Manager to attend an educational or training course related to the activities of his/her employment, involving no absence from his/her regular duties, and Management feels that the employee's attendance at such a course would be of benefit to the employee and the Employer approves such course, the attendance at such course shall involve reimbursement of tuition fees and course required textbooks to the employee concerned, subject to the employee providing his/her Manager receipts and satisfactory proof that he/she successfully passed such course or in cases where no examinations are held, that he/she had attended at least seventy-five (75%) percent of the total lectures given. Where the examination is held during the employee's regularly scheduled shift, the employee shall be granted sufficient paid leave to attend and write the examinations.
