Common use of CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Clause in Contracts

CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. The following principles govern career and professional development: • the purpose of career development is to assist employees in improving their professional, technical and supervisory skills and knowledge, in order to enhance their opportunities for internal promotion, to increase the skills credited to them, and to improve their job performance by becoming better qualified; • the individual employees retain the basic responsibility for planning, initiating and carrying through their own career and professional development; • the Company accepts responsibility for actively promoting and guiding career and professional development as an enhancement of the Company's human resources capabilities and potential for success; • the parties recognize the value of identifying currently available skills, as well as those potentially in shortage, through a jointly agreed skills inventory. Consistent with the above principles, the Company and the Society agree to participate in a joint committee that will give consideration to matters of mutual interest pertaining to career and skills development. The committee will meet quarterly. Committee members will be limited to three (3) per side. The committee mandate will include identification of the impact of changing technologies, options for learning and development, and effectiveness of career and skills development programs and initiatives. In addition, the committee will also undertake a study to recommend a methodology to implement the intent of 16.01 (a) below.

CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. The following principles govern career and professional development: • the purpose of career development is to assist employees in improving their professional, technical and supervisory skills and knowledge, in order to enhance their opportunities for internal promotion, to increase the skills credited to them, and to improve their job performance by becoming better qualified; • the individual employees retain the basic responsibility for planning, initiating and carrying through their own career and professional development; • the Company accepts responsibility for actively promoting and guiding career and professional development as an enhancement of the Company's human resources capabilities and potential for success; • the parties recognize the value of identifying currently available skills, as well as those potentially in shortage, through a jointly agreed skills inventory. Consistent with the above principles, the Company and the Society agree to participate in a joint committee that will give consideration to matters of mutual interest pertaining to career and skills development. The committee will meet quarterly. Committee members will be limited to three (3) per side. The committee mandate will include identification of the impact of changing technologies, options for learning and development, and effectiveness of career and skills development programs and initiatives. In addition, the committee will also undertake a study to recommend a methodology to implement the intent of 16.01 (a) below.