4.07 (a) First Year Apprentice:
- one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1,750) hours or one
(1) year of employment assuming a minimum of five
hundred (500) hours worked in that year.
(b) Second Year Apprentice:
- one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1,750) hours or one
(1) year of employment assuming a minimum of five
hundred (500) hours worked in that year.
(c) Third Year Apprentice:
- one thousand seven hundred and fifty (1,750) hours or one
(1) year of employment assuming a minimum of five
hundred (500) hours worked in that year.
(d) All terms and conditions of this Agreement shall apply to all
apprentices except for first year apprentices who will receive ten percent
(10%) vacation pay, and be excluded from pension contributions.
4.08 (a) The Apprentice Plan shall not exceed three (3) years. Upon
completion, the apprentice must make application to become a
journeyman. Production of a Journeyman's Certificate shall entitle him to
journeyman's rates then in effect.
(b) A journeyman certificate issued by the LIUNA Training Centre
confirming the successful completion of the Waterproofing Program
acceptable to the W.C.A.O. and the Union and will be then be recognized
by the Employer.
4.09 The training program described in Article 4.10 shall establish the
criteria for an improver or trainee to become a journeyman. The parties
undertake to establish and implement this criteria within the first year of
this Collective Agreement.The parties agree to study and investigate an
establishment of a Training Program which may be funded by deductions
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