Social Workers - Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County

ARTICLE 33 WORKPLACE RETRAINING
Section 1.
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The County agrees to establish a training fund in the amount of $1.5 million in each year of
the contract. The Department of Human Resources will administer the training budget that
will be dedicated to training and/or retraining employees represented by SEIU Local 721.
Any balance from the Training Fund received from the County for fiscal year 2009-2010 will
be forwarded to fiscal year 2010-2011. Any balance from the fiscal year 2011-2012 will be
carried over into the next fiscal year. In no event shall the total dollar amount including any
balances from any fiscal year (2009-2010, 2010-2011, July 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011)
exceed $1.5 million.
The parties agree that the Training Fund and other sources of funding, allocated to the
County for SEIU for Local 721 members, as applicable, placed in the Training Fund, shall
be used to address emerging departmental needs, mitigate workforce reductions,
displacement of permanent represented employees, for skills-based training to meet critical
department needs and academic-based career development training programs.
Section 2. Solicitation of Funds
The County agrees to work with Local 721 to seek State and/or Federal Funds available to
the County to address retraining needs of employees represented by Local 721 adversely
impacted as a result of re-engineering/organizational restructuring as ordered by the Board
of Supervisors. The County agrees to consult with Local 721 regarding its efforts to obtain