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B. The Employer agrees to encourage and make provisions for the training of new <br />employees . <br />C. If an employee fails to attend or satisfactorily complete the appropriate Washington <br />State Basic Corrections Training course within six (6) calendar months from the first <br />day of employment, said employee shall be terminated without any recourse except <br />as noted in D. <br />D. In the event the Sheriff petitions the Washington State Basic Corrections Training <br />Commission for an extension of the six (6) calendar month time limitation with <br />respect to a particular employee and said extension is granted, then said employee <br />fails to satisfactorily complete the appropriate basic corrections training course, said <br />employee shall be terminated without any recourse. <br />7.5 Reserve Unit: There shall exist at the option of the Employer a reserve unit of law <br />enforcement reserve officers to which the provision of this labor agreement shall not apply. <br />The Employer will notify regular employees by posting the status of reserve law enforcement <br />officers regarding commissioned versus non-commissioned. Regular employees, as required by <br />the Employer, shall work with reserve law enforcement officers regardless of commissioned <br />versus non-commissioned status. This unit of law enforcement reserve officers may be utilized <br />as determined by the Employer, to perform those duties normally performed by bargaining unit <br />personnel only after reasonable effort has been made to offer regular employees the <br />opportunity for work, so long as it would not qualify as overtime under the Fair Labor Standards <br />Act provisions. Usage of reserve law enforcement officers would be limited to circumstances <br />involving temporary replacement of regular employees in case of vacations, holidays, sickness, <br />schooling, weekend transport when regular officers are not available, short-handedness in <br />personnel, and those circumstances involved in a bona fide emergency as set forth in Section <br />11.12. <br />7.6 lateral Hire <br />A. CORRECTIONS OFFICER: A Lateral shall be defined as any new lateral hire who has <br />not less than twelve (12) consecutive months of full time, compensated Corrections <br />experience, who successfully completed a probationary period from a recognized <br />law enforcement entity and who has successfully completed a course of Basic <br />Corrections Academy Training, or equivalent, from the Washington State Criminal <br />Justice training Commission, or from another local, State or Federal Law <br />Enforcement Training program recognized by the WSCJTC, and who has not been <br />separated from full time Corrections employment for a period of time greater than <br />twenty-four (24) months at the time of application to the Sheriff's Office. <br />Applicants who otherwise meet the definition of Lateral Hire above, but have been <br />separated from full time Corrections employment for a period of time greater than <br />twenty-four (24) months at the time of application, may be considered as long as <br />they have maintained a higher level of certification and employment in a law <br />Kittitas County Corrections Contract -01/01/16 -12/31/18 Page 6