PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING Sample Clauses

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING. ‌‌‌ The Employer and the Union agree that Professional Growth and Training of all WCSSF members is a matter of mutual interest.
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PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING. It is the policy of the District to assist employees who wish to increase their knowledge and skills. Employees are encouraged to improve their knowledge and skills by pursuing and successfully completing appropriate courses. If the District offers the employees the opportunity to attend job related workshops, conferences or seminars, the employees may attend such training opportunities for the mutual benefit of the District and the employee. The District will pay the registration fee(s) associated with the training as well as any books required. The employees shall be paid their regular hourly rate for all hours spent in such training and the training(s) will be conducted during normal working hours.
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING. Section 1: It is the policy of the District to assist employees who wish to increase their knowledge and skills. Employees are encouraged to improve their knowledge and skills by pursuing and successfully completing appropriate courses. If the District offers the employees the opportunity to attend job related workshops, conferences or seminars, the employees may attend such training opportunities for the mutual benefit of the District and the employee. The District will pay the registration fee(s) associated with the training as well as any books required. The employees shall be paid their regular hourly rate for all hours spent in such training. Section 2: The District recognizes that the skill and knowledge of its employees are crucial to the success of the District. The courses provided encourage personal development through formal education so that the employees can maintain and improve job related skills, or enhance their ability to compete for reasonable attainable jobs within their bargaining unit classifications of SEIU at the District. SEIU may provide such courses in each area of growth to all employees who have completed their probationary period. The classes will be taught by a certified instructor for (but not limited to) boiler, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and/or general industrial maintenance. Employees that successfully complete a course will be provided a certificate of completion that will be valued by the District and placed in their personnel file. Each employee that volunteers to attend such a class(es) be at their own time, not during a regular scheduled work time and their hourly wage rate will not be compensated by the District for hours in attendance. As evidence of successful completion by the certificate, the District will reimburse that employee for the full cost of the required book for that class Pre-approval by the employee from the District is required of any programs/classes prior to attending for authorization and for any reimbursement by the District
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND TRAINING. The Board and Union shall establish a Classified Staff Professional Growth Committee composed of representatives of the Union and representatives from the Administration. The Committee shall meet at least twice per school year to develop a plan for offering professional growth opportunities to bargaining unit members. The Board shall provide the Committee with an annual budget of $20,000.00 plus grants, if any, and such funds may only be used for expenses and fees related to professional growth opportunities. The Committee shall assess and make decisions on an annual basis regarding which professional growth opportunities will be offered each school year and what, if any, guidelines or eligibility requirements must be adhered to in order to participate in the professional growth opportunities. The Committee shall also decide whether any of the annual budgeted funds will be expended on a professional growth opportunity or related expenses. The Board agrees to consider a request from the Committee for additional funds in the event the budgeted amount is depleted. Examples of items on which the Committee may choose to expend its budgeted funds, include, but are not limited to: • Tuition Reimbursement for programs/classes preapproved by the Committee • Expenses/fees related to attending a professional growth event or conference • Expenses/fees to retain certified trainers to provide in-house training • Expenses/fees to send employees to a certified training event
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  • Professional Growth Plan Professional Growth Plan documents cannot be used as evidence for probation or termination.

  • Orientation and Training A transferring employee will be orientated separately to both or their new home in accordance with Article 20 the collective agreement of the designated employer.

  • Professional Development and Training 4.1 The purpose of professional development and training requirements for interpreters is to maintain the skill levels interpreters possess at the time they pass their interpreter certification examination, and to further enhance their skills and knowledge. Both the State and the Union encourage interpreters to complete training and continuing education activities.

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  • Education and Training The foundation of this Program is education and voluntary compliance. It is recognized that alcohol and chemical dependency may make voluntary cessation of use difficult, and one of the Program’s principal aims is to make voluntary steps toward ending substance abuse easily available. The outside contractor shall review and develop on-going educational and training information on the adverse consequences of substance abuse and the responsibility to avoid being under the influence of alcohol or chemicals at work. Certain training required by the DOT Regulations shall be the responsibility of the Substance Abuse Program.

  • Employment and Training Administration The ratio of trainees to journeymen on the job site shall not be greater than permitted under the plan approved by the Employment and Training Administration. Every trainee must be paid at not less than the rate specified in the approved program for the trainee's level of progress, expressed as a percentage of the journeyman hourly rate specified in the applicable wage determination. Trainees shall be paid fringe benefits in accordance with the provisions of the trainee program. If the trainee program does not mention fringe benefits, trainees shall be paid the full amount of fringe benefits listed on the wage determination unless the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division determines that there is an apprenticeship program associated with the corresponding journeyman wage rate on the wage determination which provides for less than full fringe benefits for apprentices. Any employee listed on the payroll at a trainee rate who is not registered and participating in a training plan approved by the Employment and Training Administration shall be paid not less than the applicable wage rate on the wage determination for the classification of work actually performed. In addition, any trainee performing work on the job site in excess of the ratio permitted under the registered program shall be paid not less than the applicable wage rate on the wage determination for the work actually performed. In the event the Employment and Training Administration withdraws approval of a training program, the contractor will no longer be permitted to utilize trainees at less than the applicable predetermined rate for the work performed until an acceptable program is approved.

  • STUDENTS AND TRAINEES 1. Payments which a student, business apprentice or trainee who is or was immediately before visiting a Contracting State a resident of the other Contracting State and who is present in the first-mentioned State solely for the purpose of his education or training receives for the purpose of his maintenance, education or training shall not be taxed in that State, provided that such payments arise from sources outside that State.

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