TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT - PETERBOROUGH. The success of the Company to compete in global markets and provide satisfying employment and career growth opportunities will to a significant extent depend on our ability to increase productivity, adapt to new and changing technologies and broaden individual employee skills. This in turn will depend on our joint efforts to have in place programs to upgrade and expand employee job skills. For these reasons the Company has undertaken to improve its approaches to training and development. The Company will commit the necessary resources to achieve the above through a process that will involve the Union in training needs assessment and training program development. The training objective is to provide opportunities to all employees, while recognizing the role of seniority, to achieve a required broad based multi-skilling capability which supports and enhances organizational change and working conditions through work restructuring and facilities consolidation thereby increasing job security and skill/career advancement. Training programs will address such issues as the education and training to acquire both knowledge and skill, using: Literacy level education Generic training Technical training Work Group Process Skills (S.M.W.F.) Occupational Health and Safety Educational Leaves Technological change adjustment Apprenticeship Computer Literacy Joint Training Committees will function under the auspices/direction of the Plant Steering Committee. Joint Training Committees comprising employees, unions, supervision and Company representatives will normally be established in each business encompassing a number of work group or cost centres to oversee and "manage" the training response to the identified training needs. The Joint Training Committees will function under the auspices/direction of the Plant Steering Committee. And as part of their responsibilities, will act as advisory/support/resource groups to the Plant Steering Committee in the following areas: Inventory employee skills Identify scope of training needs assessment Establish priorities Co-ordinate training delivery and scheduling Review efficiency of the implementation of the training response and recommend changes SECTION B
