Training and Advanced Education. The Employer shall determine when training is necessary and shall set consistent standards for all training. The Employer reserves the right to assign members to job-related training. If a member is on approved leave, the Employer shall not require a member to be recalled from personal leave for the purposes of attending job-related training. When scheduling job- related training, the Employer shall make efforts to assure the training does not conflict with a member's prior authorized and scheduled personal leave. If the Employer temporarily changes the duty schedule for the purpose of attending mandatory, department required training, the Employer will make every effort to provide member with fourteen (14) days’ notice. Test scores alone may not be grounds for disciplinary action. However, failure to attend or satisfactorily participate in the assigned training may be grounds for disciplinary action. The satisfactory completion of entry level training provided by the Employer is required for continued employment in that class series regardless of employee status (i.e., probationary or permanent). All members are required to satisfactorily complete all Employer provided training designed to meet FAA regulations. When attending a training class of three days or less, the hours spent in class will count as the total work day, so long as the class is at least eight (8) hours in duration per day, and the first day of any class shall count as the eight (8) hour day guaranteed within the fourteen (14) day work period. If a class is four (4) days or more, all hours spent in class will be considered towards an eighty (80) hour work period. When attending training classes that cause a member to be scheduled below the guaranteed eighty (80) hours in a work period, the member will be granted Employer-paid Minimum Guarantee hours. Travel time to and from a training class shall not be considered a training day as outlined above. Travel time will be counted in accordance with Article 8. Management and the member may agree to a temporary duty schedule change for attendance at training classes. When attending a training class in which the member’s regularly scheduled shift adjoins the scheduled training shift, or which interrupts the member’s sleep hours, the member shall be granted Employer-paid administrative leave up to a cumulative total of 8 hours in pay status, to be split/scheduled by agreement between management and the member. This is to ensure the member will ...
Training and Advanced Education. Section 1:
Training and Advanced Education
