BILINGUAL POSITIONS. a) The Employer shall provide the bargaining agent with a list of all Unifor Local 2025 positions and their current language requirements within ninety (90) days of the signing of the collective agreement. b) Prior to changing the language profile of a position, the Employer will provide notice to the Union including rationale for making the change. c) If a position is identified as bilingual by the Employer, indeterminate unilingual employees will be eligible to make written application provided that an appointment to this position constitutes a promotion for an employee and provided that they undertake to become proficient in the other official language within a two (2) year period from the date on which the Employer approves the employee to commence language training. If an employee fails to meet the language requirements of the position within the above noted two (2) year period, the Employer shall make every possible reasonable effort to place the employee in a position at a classification level equivalent to their former position. An employee shall be granted leave with pay for the purpose of language training and the Employer shall bear all costs associated with such training.
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