MAIN INDEX APPENDIX C The parties hereto agree as follows: 1. Employees whose training in the skilled trades was interrupted by a leave of absence under Paragraph (105a), the portion of a leave of absence under Paragraph (106) occurring on and after January 1, 1980, Paragraph (108) or Paragraph (112), or for Jury Duty, approved absences which qualify under the Bereavement Pay, Paid Absence Allowance, Paid Personal Holiday Plan under prior Agreements or Short Term Military Duty Sections of this Agreement, by approved vacation time off, by up to thirty (30) calendar days of layoff in a calendar year occurring on and after January 1, 1988, and all time on layoff out of the program occurring on and after January 1, 1991, and who thereafter qualify for status as employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) or are reclassified as journeymen/women in the skilled trades, shall, at such time, be given the same E.I.T.S. date or journeyman/woman seniority date as they would have received if they had not been on such leave, layoff or approved absence. 2. Employees-in-training (E.I.T.) or employees-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) shall be credited with seven days worked in a skilled trades classification for each pay period during which they worked in that classification in that plant and seven days for the pay period in which the full week of Christmas holidays fall provided such employees would otherwise have been scheduled to work in that plant. Such employees shall receive credit as time worked in a skilled classification for time spent on approved leaves of absence from that classification up to but not exceeding an aggregate of thirty (30) calendar days within the calendar year. Such employees will not receive credit as time worked in a skilled classification for any portion of the leave that they would have been laid off in a reduction in force or returned to their production classification had they not been granted such leave. 3. Employees-in-training (E.I.T.), who are Committeepersons or in-plant full time Union Representatives, shall be credited with seven days worked in a skilled trades classification for each pay period during which they function in such capacity until they acquire employee-in-training-seniority (E.I.T.S.) status. Thereafter they shall be credited as provided in 2. above. MAIN INDEX