Common use of AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE Clause in Contracts

AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. (1) A Joint Committee on Automation and Technological Change will be established which shall consist of three (3) persons representing management and three (3) persons representing the Union. It shall be the function of each committee to study the effect of projected and proposed technological, operational, organizational or other changes on employees, on their employment status and their working conditions, and on future manpower requirements in the mill. (2) A proposed or projected technological or other change which is likely to be of a permanent nature and which may materially affect the employment status and/or conditions of employment of the employees covered byte agreement of future manpower requirements shall not be put into effect until the following conditions have been satisfied. The Company has advised the Union of the proposed or projected changes as far in advance as possible and, in any event before orders placed on any equipment which involved a change under this section. Discussions will be held with the union regarding the nature of the change, its time sequence and duration, its anticipated effects on employment status and/or the conditions of employment of the employees and on future manpower requirements, including the number and location of the employees likely to be affected. (3) In the event that a Company-initiated change involves a material alteration in the nature and/or skill or other requirements of an occupation, a new rate shall be negotiated for the job in question. The employees concerned shall receive the necessary instructions and training to enable him to fulfill the changed requirements of the job. During the training period the employee shall be paid at the former job rate pending agreement on the new job rate, whereupon the new rate shall be paid with retroactive effect from the date on which altered job requirements are considered to have come into effect.

AUTOMATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE. (1) A Joint Committee on Automation and Technological Change will be established which shall consist of three (3) persons representing management Management and three (3) persons representing the Union. It shall be the function of each committee to study the effect of projected and proposed technological, operational, organizational or other changes on employees, on their employment status and their working conditionscondition, and on future manpower requirements in the mill. (2) A proposed or projected technological or other change which is likely to be of a permanent nature and which may materially affect the employment status and/or conditions of employment of the employees covered byte by the agreement of future manpower requirements shall not be put into effect until the following conditions have been satisfied. The Company has advised the Union of the proposed or projected changes as far in advance as possible and, in any event before orders placed on any equipment which involved a change under this section. Discussions will be held with the union Union regarding the nature of the change, its time sequence and duration, its anticipated effects on employment status and/or the conditions of employment of the employees and on future manpower requirements, including the number and location of the employees likely to be affected. (3) In the event that a Company-Company initiated change involves a material alteration in the nature and/or skill or other requirements of an occupation, a new rate shall be negotiated for the job in question. The employees concerned shall receive the necessary instructions and training to enable him to fulfill the changed change requirements of the job. During the training period the employee shall be paid at the former job rate pending agreement on the new job rate, whereupon the new rate shall be paid with retroactive effect from the date on which altered job requirements are considered to have come into effect.