Common use of TECHNOLOGICAL OR PROCEDURAL CHANGES AND SEVERANCE PAY Clause in Contracts

TECHNOLOGICAL OR PROCEDURAL CHANGES AND SEVERANCE PAY. 17.01 Definition, Notice, Disclosure and Consultation (a) Wherever possible, the Employer shall provide the Union with up to six (6) months' written notice of intention to introduce automated equipment and/or procedural change. (b) The Employer agrees to disclose full details of the planned technological and/or procedural changes, which may cause any change to an employee's normal duties or place of employment. (c) The Employer and the Union shall enter into meaningful consultation regarding such technological and/or procedural changes prior to implementation. 17.02 Employees becoming redundant due to new equipment or procedures, shall be eligible for re-training to equip them for the operation of such new equipment or procedure, or to qualify for new positions. Such re-training will be provided by the Employer without loss of pay, to the affected employees. 17.03 In cases where re-training is not practical, or where other positions with the Employer are not available, the employee(s) shall elect for termination of employment, bumping rights pursuant to Article 14.03 or elect to be placed on the recall list. An employee on recall under this Article, shall receive all the benefits he had accrued during employment at the end of the recall period or at such earlier time as he may elect to terminate. 17.04 A specified extension of the recall period, where recall is applied under Article 17.03 above, may be mutually agreed by the employee and the Employer, subject to written approval by the Union.

TECHNOLOGICAL OR PROCEDURAL CHANGES AND SEVERANCE PAY. 17.01 Definition, Notice, Disclosure and Consultation: (a) Wherever possible, the Employer shall provide the Union with up to six (6) months' written notice of intention to introduce automated equipment and/or procedural change. (b) The Employer agrees to disclose full details of the planned technological and/or procedural changes, which may cause any change to an employee's normal duties or place of employment. (c) The Employer and the Union shall enter into meaningful consultation regarding such technological and/or procedural changes prior to implementation. 17.02 Employees becoming redundant due to new equipment or procedures, shall be eligible for re-training to equip them for the operation of such new equipment or procedure, or to qualify for new positions. Such re-training will be provided by the Employer without loss of pay, to the affected employees. 17.03 In cases where the re-training of employees is not practical, or where other positions with the Employer are not available, the employee(s) shall elect for termination of employment, bumping rights pursuant to Article 14.03 employment or shall elect to be placed on the recall list. An employee on recall under this ArticleClause, shall receive all the benefits he had accrued during employment at the end of the recall period or at such earlier time as he may elect to terminate. 17.04 A specified extension of the recall period, where recall is applied under Article Clause 17.03 above, may be mutually agreed by the employee and the Employer, subject to written approval by the Union.

TECHNOLOGICAL OR PROCEDURAL CHANGES AND SEVERANCE PAY. 17.01 Definition, Notice, Disclosure and Consultation (a) Wherever possible, the Employer shall provide the Union with up to six (6) months' written notice of intention to introduce automated equipment and/or procedural change. (b) The Employer agrees to disclose full details of the planned technological and/or procedural changes, which may cause any change to an employeeEmployee's normal duties or place of employment. (c) The Employer and the Union shall enter into meaningful consultation regarding such technological and/or procedural changes prior to implementation. 17.02 Employees becoming whose positions become redundant due to new equipment or procedures, procedures shall be eligible for re-training to equip them for the operation of such new equipment or procedure, or to qualify for new positions. Such re-training will be provided by the Employer Employer, without loss of pay, to the affected employeesEmployees. 17.03 In cases where the re-training of Employees is not practical, or where other positions with the Employer are not available, the employee(sEmployee(s) shall elect for termination of employment, bumping rights pursuant to Article 14.03 terminate employment or elect to be placed on the recall list. An employee on recall under this Article, Article 14 shall receive all the benefits he the Employee had accrued during employment at the end of the recall period or at such earlier time as he they may elect to terminate. 17.04 A specified extension of the recall period, where recall is applied under Article 17.03 above, may be mutually agreed by the employee and the Employer, subject to written approval by the Union.