AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. 29.01 Wherever possible the Corporation shall give six (6) months advance notice in order to discuss any decision to introduce changes in plant, equipment or work methods, which may have an adverse effect on present manpower requirements. Permanent employees, who may be displaced from their job by virtue of automation or technological change, will be given the opportunity to fill other vacancies according to the provisions as set forth in Article XVI relative to seniority and qualifications. 29.02 Tbaytel will undertake to retrain, at regular rates of pay, an employee who has been displaced because of automation or technological change. The degree of retraining will be governed by the capability of the employee to be retrained and the availability of a suitable position within Tbaytel.
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