Productivity Enhancement. The parties mutually agree to work together to develop employee incentive plans which will increase productivity and reward employees with a share of the gains. The parties further agree to develop wellness programs in accordance with the Fringe Benefits Memorandum of Understanding which may also result in monetary incentives for employees.
Productivity Enhancement. A. The parties recognize that safety and productivity are essential in the traffic control, lane closure industry. It is therefore agreed by the parties that the Union and the Employer will work together to address the special needs of the industry regarding safety and journeyperson training to ensure the competitiveness of the Individual Employer.
Productivity Enhancement. 18.01 In the interests of maximizing the efficiency of the work on the BOP Project the Parties have agreed to a separate Letter of understanding regarding Work Teams.
18.02 In the interests of maximizing the efficiency of materials handling and movement on the BOP Project Site, the Unions have agreed that, subject to Article 26 of this Agreement and the first drop principle, all materials handling that can be done without requiring any trade related rigging procedures or practices from the first drop point at the BOP Project Site to the laydown, warehouse or location of installation, as determined by the Employer, will be done by members of any union, subject to consultation with the affected unions. Once the material has been delivered to the aforementioned locations, each respective trade will work, install and move material under their jurisdiction. If specialized skills from a member of a specific trade are required to identify or test specific materials, as determined by the Employer, a member from the appropriate trade will be sent to the lay-down area, warehouse or installation location to perform the required additional testing or identification. Should a problem arise related to material handling defined herein, then the affected unions and site management will meet and make every reasonable effort to resolve the issue. Should the problem not be resolved by the affected union and site management, then a meeting with the Business Managers, CLRA and the Contractor will be convened within ten (10) days and the parties will make every reasonable effort to resolve the problem. If, after making every reasonable effort as set out, the parties are unable to resolve the problem, traditional jurisdictional practices will resolve the problem. This material handling process shall be non-precedential and non-citable and cannot be used against either Party in any future disputes.
Productivity Enhancement. (a) Provision of 150 precision land leveling (PLL) equipment for carrying out of land leveling activities using laser guided equipment.
(b) Construction of approximately thirty (30) farming tunnels within the jurisdiction of thirty (30) different WCAs in the Nara, Left Bank and Ghotki Feeder AWBs, including: (i) the provision of equipment, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides; and (ii) the provision of training to, and implementation of capacity building activities for, farmers, FOs and WCAs for the planning and design thereof.
(c) Establishment of about 300 farmer field schools; carrying out of awareness raising campaigns and information dissemination programs for farmer, FOs and WCAs on pest management techniques; provision of training to farmers on safe use of chemical pesticides and integrated pest management practices; provision of training to facilitators; augmentation of predators/parasites for fighting pests affecting sugarcane, cotton and vegetables crops in the Province of Sindh; promotion of Neem (tree) based bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers; monitoring of pesticides residues and carrying out studies on impact evaluation and pesticides residue results.
(d) Establishment of an additional information kiosk in Sanghar district, and operation and maintenance of the kiosks established under the Original Project, in order to collect, and make available to farmers, information on canal water availability, procurement of inputs and marketing of outputs, and prices.
