Induction Procedures a) The parties to this Agreement acknowledge that it is in the interests of the industry that all new employees and employers on a building project understand their obligations to this Agreement and are introduced to their jobs in a manner which will help them work safely and efficiently.
b) In order to achieve this it is recommended that, in conjunction with the Site Management, Job ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and Safety Supervisor/Safety Committee, new employees and new employers be given an explanation of the following: ⮚ The Rights and Obligations of this Agreement including its disputes/grievance resolution procedures; ⮚ The appropriate issue of work clothing and safety equipment as per this Agreement; ⮚ Safety Rules and Procedures including relevant legislation; ⮚ Superannuation entitlements; ⮚ Long Service Leave provisions; ⮚ Redundancy Pay entitlements; ⮚ Site Emergency procedures; ⮚ Award or Enterprise Agreement rates of pay; ⮚ Site-specific matters such as security, etc. procedures; ⮚ Rights, obligations and benefits of union membership.
c) The induction presentation and material shall have regard to the language skills of the employee/employer.
ESCALATION PROCEDURES 48.1 The Standard Practices outlines the escalation process which may be invoked at any point in the Service Ordering, Provisioning, and Maintenance processes to facilitate rapid and timely resolution of disputes.
NEGOTIATION PROCEDURES A. At least sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of this Agreement, the parties will begin negotiations for a new Agreement covering wages, hours, terms and conditions of employment of employees covered by this Agreement.
B. In any negotiations described in this article, neither party shall have control over the selection of the negotiating representatives of the other party and each party may select its representatives from within or outside the school district. It is recognized that no final Agreement between the parties may be executed without ratification by the Board and the Association. The parties mutually pledge that representatives selected by each shall be clothed with necessary power and authority to make proposals and concessions in the course of negotiations, subject only to such ultimate ratification.
C. If the parties fail to reach an agreement in any such negotiations, either party may invoke the procedures established under Public Act 379 as amended.
D. Members of the Association’s negotiating team and/or consultants thereto, who are employees of the Employer, shall be released from their normal duties without loss of salary when meetings of the two negotiating teams are scheduled during their normal working hours.
E. The parties hereby agree that their Teams shall meet at least quarterly during the school year to attempt to resolve problems. The topics for these meetings shall be established by the group at the previous quarter’s meeting whenever possible. Topics will remain on the agendas until resolved or until deleted by mutual agreement.
F. Prior to the establishment of any new position in the bargaining unit, the Employer shall notify the Association of such a contemplated action, and meet with the Association to negotiate workload for the position. This provision does not preclude the Employer’s ability to create and post positions. If the timing of the decision to establish the position precludes such a meeting, the Employer shall meet with the Association as soon as possible. The parties may agree that the position should be allowed to operate without a defined workload for some defined period of time to determine what a reasonable workload might be.
G. By mutual consent of both parties any section of this agreement may be reopened.
Auction Procedures (a) In connection with an Auction, the Borrower will provide notification to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Term Loan Lenders of the applicable Facility with respect to which such notice relates) of the Auction (an “Auction Notice”), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit L. Each Auction Notice shall contain (i) the total cash value of the bid, in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 with minimum increments of $1,000,000 (the “Auction Amount”), unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, (ii) the name of the relevant Facility or Facilities (which for the avoidance of doubt must be in respect of Term Loans) to which the Auction relates (the “Applicable Term Loan Facility”), (iii) the discount to par, which may be a single percentage or a range of percentages (the “Discount Range”) of the par principal amount of the Term Loans of each Applicable Term Loan Facility that represents the purchase price or range of purchase prices that could be paid in the Auction with respect to such Applicable Term Loan Facility and (iv) the date by which the Term Loan Lenders of the Applicable Term Loan Facility are required to indicate their election to participate in the Auction (the “Reply Date”), which shall be not less than five Business Days after delivery of the Auction Notice.
(b) In connection with any Auction, each Term Loan Lender of the Applicable Term Loan Facility or Applicable Term Loan Facilities may, in its sole discretion, participate in such Auction and may provide the Administrative Agent with a notice of participation (the “Return Bid”) on or before the Reply Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit M, which shall specify (i) a discount to par for Term Loans in the Applicable Term Loan Facility that must be expressed as a price (the “Reply Discount”), which must be within the Discount Range, and (ii) a principal amount of Term Loans in the Applicable Term Loan Facility that such Lender is willing to offer for sale at its Reply Discount which must be in increments of $500,000 (the “Reply Amount”). A Term Loan Lender in the Applicable Term Loan Facility may avoid the minimum increment amount condition solely when submitting a Reply Amount equal to such Term Loan Lender’s entire remaining amount of such Term Loans. Term Loan Lenders may only submit one Return Bid per Auction per Applicable Term Loan Facility but each Return Bid may contain up to three component bids only one of which can result in a Qualifying Bid (as defined below). Each Return Bid submitted to the Administrative Agent shall be irrevocable. In addition to the Return Bid, the participating Lender must execute and deliver, to be held in escrow by the Administrative Agent, an Assignment and Acceptance. The Borrower will not have any obligation to purchase any Term Loans at any price. The processing and recordation fees as set forth in Section 12.6 hereof shall not be applicable to any Auctions (it being understood and agreed that other fees may be applicable in connection with any Auction).
(c) Based on the Reply Discounts and Reply Amounts received by the Administrative Agent (who shall reasonably promptly provide the Borrower with a copy of all Reply Discounts), the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, will calculate the applicable discount (the “Applicable Discount”) for the Auction with respect to each Applicable Term Loan Facility, which will be the highest Reply Discount that is within the Discount Range and, in the event the Auction Amount cannot be paid in full at the highest Reply Discount, the Applicable Discount shall be the highest Reply Discount reducing in order to the lowest Reply Discount that is within the Discount Range which yields a prepayment in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lower of (i) the Auction Amount and (ii) the sum of all Reply Amounts. The Borrower shall purchase Term Loans (or the respective portions thereof) of the Applicable Term Loan Facility from each relevant Term Loan Lender with a Reply Discount that is equal to or greater than the Applicable Discount (“Qualifying Bids”) first to Qualifying Loans specifying the highest Reply Discount, then filling orders going to the next highest Reply Discount and then pro rata at the clearing level. If a Term Loan Lender in the Applicable Term Loan Facility has submitted a Return Bid containing multiple bids at different Reply Discounts, only the bid with the highest Reply Discount that is equal to or greater than the Applicable Discount will be deemed the Qualifying Bid of such Term Loan Lender. Each participating Term Loan Lender will receive notice of a Qualifying Bid as soon as reasonably practicable but in no case later than five Business Days from the date the Return Bid was due.
(d) The Borrower may withdraw an Auction at any time. In connection with any Auction, upon submission by a Term Loan Lender of a Return Bid, such Term Loan Lender (each, a “Qualifying Lender”) will be obligated to sell the entirety or its allocable portion of the Reply Amount, as the case may be, at the Applicable Discount.
(e) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5.19, the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower, may amend or modify the procedures, notices, bids and Assignment and Acceptance Agreement in connection with any Auction (including, solely with Borrower’s consent), (i) any term to the extent Borrower’s commercial interests will be materially adversely affected by such amendment or modification and (ii) the economic terms to the extent no Term Loan Lenders have validly tendered Term Loans requested in an offer, but excluding economic terms of an auction after any Term Loan Lenders in the Applicable Term Loan Facility have validly tendered Term Loans requested in an offer, other than to increase the Auction Amount or raise the Discount Range; provided that no such amendments or modifications may be implemented after 24 hours prior to the date and time return bids are due.
(f) All parties to the relevant repurchases shall render customary “big-boy” disclaimer letters or any such disclaimers shall be incorporated into the terms of the Assignment and Assumption.
Evaluation Procedures The following procedures for employee evaluation shall be utilized for the term of this Agreement:
1. Orientation materials related to evaluation procedures will be provided to all employees by the 10th school day.
2. Employees shall submit to their evaluator a complete listing of proposed objectives, and measurement activities related thereto, to be considered in the annual evaluation by the 25th school day.
3. The evaluator shall have completed by 30th school day annual objective setting conference with employee.
4. The evaluator shall by the 40th school day determine and shall provide the employee with a complete listing of actual objectives from those proposed by the evaluator and employee, and measurement activities from those proposed by the evaluator and employee, and measurement activities related thereto, that will be incorporated in the annual evaluation that the evaluator will prepare for the employee. The objectives and related measurement activities referred to herein shall be in accordance with the employee job description prescribed by the District. The District will make every attempt to have the number of objectives required to be uniform from site to site.
5. Within a reasonable time after the request, the evaluator shall be provided with a written progress report from the employee containing the latter's perception of the progress being made toward the achievement of the objectives prescribed in Item 3, above. During the course of the evaluation period, circumstances may change which may result in the modification of the original standards and objectives. These changes may be initiated by the supervisor or the employee. Agreement of both parties is required.
6. The evaluator, by the 145th school day, shall have conducted classroom observations in order to gather data on employee performance as the evaluator believes to be related to:
A. The actual objectives and measurement activities described in Item 3, above;
B. Other criteria for employee evaluation and appraisal that are established by the District ▇▇▇▇▇ Act Guidelines. At the discretion of the evaluator, tenured teachers may receive only one (1) formal instructional observation per year. Probationary teachers will receive two (2) formal instructional observations per year. Prior to conducting formal instructional observations regarding the teacher's duties related to the instructional objectives herein described, the teacher shall be notified of the observation prior to the beginning of the teacher's actual instructional day. Upon the request of the evaluatee or when, in the evaluator's judgment, additional instructional classroom observations are necessary, such observations may be conducted. Within a reasonable time, an employee shall be provided with a written statement regarding instructional observations that have been conducted. Such written statements shall contain a summary of the instructional activities observed, and any suggestions being made by the observer for possible improvement by the employee to include, but not be limited to, the following:
1) Specific directives for improvement
2) Assistance to implement such directives as
(a) Provisions of additional resources;
(b) Mandatory training programs designed to improve performance to be paid by the District. A final and written report of the achievement of objectives, and measurement information related thereto shall be submitted by the employee to the evaluator by the 140th school day.
7. The evaluator shall prepare a written District evaluation form of employee performance and transmit the evaluation to the employee. The employee may submit a written reaction or response to the evaluation and such response shall be attached to the evaluation and placed in the employee's permanent personnel file which shall be maintained in the District Office. Permanent employees shall be evaluated at least once every other year, and in no event later than 30 days before the last school day scheduled on the school calendar of the current school year. Probationary employees shall be evaluated at least once each year and in no event later than the 150th school day.
8. Employees who meet each of the following conditions shall be evaluated up to every five