WORKFORCE ISSUES Clause Samples
WORKFORCE ISSUES. The Employer retains the right to determine the number of employees required at any place from time to time for any of its operations. Employer retains the right to determine the jobs, content of jobs, and to modify, combine or end any job, department or operation; to hire, classify, transfer, promote, demote and lay off employees; to determine employee qualifications, evaluate performance and assign and direct the workforce; to maintain order and discipline; and to reprimand, suspend, discharge and otherwise discipline for just cause.
WORKFORCE ISSUES. 16.1 The Partners have agreed the arrangements set out in Schedule 8 with regard to staff, employment and secondment issues.
WORKFORCE ISSUES. 7.1 The Company recognises that major procurement exercises are complex and time- consuming for the authority, and that meaningful involvement in this process by trade union representatives brings a significant additional workload. Therefore, the JTUF will be granted facility time to fulfil these duties and have access to meeting with members in the lead up to and during a significant procurement process. Please refer to the Trade Union Recognition Agreement.
7.2 Staff will be given paid time off to attend trades union meetings at key points in the process in accordance with current facility agreements.
WORKFORCE ISSUES. 7.1 The Company recognises that major procurement exercises are complex and time-consuming for the authority, and that meaningful involvement in this process by trade union representatives brings a significant additional workload. Therefore, the JTUF will be granted facility time to fulfil these duties and have access to meeting with members in the lead up to and during a significant procurement process.
7.2 Staff will be given paid time off to attend trades union meetings at key points in the process in accordance with current facility agreements.
7.3 In any service changes, the Company will take steps to avoid compulsory redundancies and maximise redeployment opportunities.
7.4 The Company is committed to workforce development which maximises opportunities for training and development and recognises the positive role of trade unions and union learning reps in workforce development. A similar approach will be required from bidders for the Company’s contracts.
7.5 The Company will support its own compliance with statutory public sector equality duties and its own Equalities scheme(s) by including specific requirements for, and monitoring of, contractors to improve equality for the workforce providing public services.
7.6 The Company is committed to fully protecting the pay, conditions, and pensions of the workforce where possible through a “TUPE plus” type agreement or where appropriate a transfer agreement the Company will ensure protection either through secondment arrangements/ transfer agreement or by ensuring that workforce commitments and protections are embedded within tender documentation, contracts and re-tenders.
7.7 Where permissible the Company will endeavour any successful contractor to secure a directions order in the continued membership of the NHSPS or a broadly similar scheme.
7.8 The Company will encourage contractors to recognise trades unions for new starters as well as transferred employees.