Work Experience Placements. The Board and the Union agree that the following guidelines for the placement of work experience participants apply:
1. CUPE members’ participation is voluntary
2. Work experience students shall not be used to avoid bringing in replacement workers.
3. The Board shall not make any work experience placements that would result in the displacement of a regular or temporary employee, to replace an employee who is on lay-off, or to replace workers during a labour relations dispute.
4. If concerns arise which cannot be resolved by the Board and the Union, such placements shall be terminated.
5. All work experience programs involving CUPE employees must be approved in writing by the Board, the Union and the employee involved in the placement using a Work Experience Placement form as agreed between the Board and the Union.
Work Experience Placements. 1. To persons with no or no more than two years of relevant work or research experience who are or threaten to become unemployed, or to persons who are employed but in a position that is unrelated to their education the employer may, if so requested by these persons, offer a work experience placement for a period of no more than one year.
2. Work experience placements are not regular positions and may not replace regular positions.
3. Persons in a work experience placement do not receive a salary for their work. However, their expenses may be covered on a declaration basis, if these expenses are related to the work experience placement. Expenses include travel fares to and from the location of the work experience placement.
4. The agreements reached with regard to the work experience placement, including the duration, number of hours, nature of the work and the expenses that may be reimbursed are laid down in a work experience placement contract.
5. The CAO and the internal rules pertaining to it do not apply to work experience placements, with the exception of this article, articles 1.6, paragraphs 5 through 8, article 1.6, paragraph 20, article 1.6, paragraph 21, and article 1.9.
6. If persons are unemployed and have an unemployment benefit or related benefit, permission from the benefits agency is required to qualify for a work experience placement.
Work Experience Placements. If a person is undertaking organised voluntary work experience with the Insured and whilst in pursuit of occupational duties on behalf of the Insured sustains Bodily Injury resulting in death or Loss of Limb(s) or Loss of Sight or Loss of Hearing or Loss of Speech or Permanent Total Disablement or Permanent Partial Disablement the Company shall pay a benefit to the Insured in accordance with the Sum Insured shown in the Personal Accident Specification.
Work Experience Placements. The Parties recognize the value to the community of work experience placements with the Employer. Work experience candidates are usually placed with the Employer for a limited period of time as part of an education program and are unpaid. In some cases they may be paid by an external agency or by the Employer. It is agreed that in no case will any member of the bargaining unit have their hours of work reduced or lose employment or employment opportunities as a result of a work experience placement. The Employer commits to notify the Union of the nature and duration of any work experience placement prior to the placement.
Work Experience Placements. For the purposes of this Agreement, work experience placements are identified as follows:
(a) Work experience placements are unpaid, such as student placements.
(b) A work experience placement is designed to introduce individuals to specific work experiences and skills by placing an individual in a working environment in order that the individual can experience first-hand the demands of the workplace they will face when entering the work force and to acquire or enhance certain skills. The following terms and conditions must apply for each work experience placement:
1. Any work experience placement(s) shall not exceed one (1) year. The Employer and the Union may by written agreement, extend the one (1) year period.
2. General occupational health and safety training, including WHIMS training, shall be given to an individual prior to a work experience placement. It is the responsibility of the Employer to ensure that the individual has all appropriate safety equipment as may be required.
3. The status of the work experience placements will be a standing agenda item at Labour Management Committee meetings.
4. Participation in a work experience placement by a bargaining unit Employee is completely voluntary.
5. A work experience placement will not be made when such work experience placement will replace an employee who is on layoff or whose job has been eliminated, nor shall a work experience placement be used to avoid hiring an Employee.
6. No bargaining unit Employee shall be held liable or responsible for the improper action of any individual participating in a work experience placement.
7. A person placed with the Employer in a work experience placement is not an Employee nor entitled to any preference over any Employee with respect to any rights or benefits resulting from employment or the Collective Agreement between the parties.
8. At no time will an individual under a work experience placement be placed in a workplace during a strike or lockout between the Union and the Employer. If a strike or lockout occurs during a work experience placement, the individual will be removed from the workplace until such time as the dispute is resolved.
9. If a bargaining unit Employee has agreed to supervise an individual on a work experience placement, they will be provided with adequate time to work with the individual.
