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Military Recruitment, Assessment and Veterans Employment (hereinafter "Center") and the <br />Center's "Helmets to Hardhats" program to serve as a resource for preliminary orientation, <br />assessment of construction aptitude, referral to apprenticeship programs or hiring halls, <br />counseling and mentoring, support network, employment opportunities and other needs as <br />identified by the Parties. For purposes of this Agreement the term "Eligible Veteran" shall have <br />the same meaning as the term "veteran" as defined under Title 5, Section 2108(1) of the United <br />States Code as the same may be amended or re -codified from time to time. It shall be the <br />responsibility of each qualified applicant to provide the Unions with proof of his/her status as an <br />Eligible Veteran. <br />3.7.1 The Unions and Contractors agree to coordinate with non-profit Veteran <br />organizations, including, the Center to create and maintain an integrated database of veterans <br />interested in working on this Project Work and of apprenticeship and employment opportunities <br />for working on Project Work. To the extent permitted by law, the Unions will give credit to such <br />Veterans for bona fide, provable past experience. <br />Section 3.8 Core Employees <br />3.8.1 Contractors not currently signatory to a Master Labor Agreement may employ, as <br />needed, first, a member of his core workforce, then an employee through a referral from the <br />appropriate Union hiring hall, then a second core employee, then a second employee through the <br />referral system, and so on until a maximum of five (5) core employees are employed, thereafter, <br />all additional employees in the affected trade or craft shall be requisitioned from the craft hiring <br />hall in accordance with Section 3.3. In the laying off of employees, the number of core <br />employees shall not exceed one-half plus one of the workforce for an employer with 10 or fewer <br />employees, assuming the remaining employees are qualified to undertake the work available. As <br />part of this process, and in order to facilitate the contract administration procedures, as well as <br />appropriate fringe benefit fund coverage, all Contractors shall require their core employees and <br />any other persons employed other than through the referral process, to register with the <br />appropriate Union hiring hall, if any, prior to their first day of employment at a project site. <br />3.8.2 The core work force is comprised of those employees whose names appeared on <br />the Contractor's active payroll for sixty (60) of the one hundred (100) working days immediately <br />before award of Project Work to the Contractor; who possess any license required by state or <br />federal law for the Project Work to be performed; who have the ability to safely perform the <br />basic functions of the applicable trade and who have been residing within Orange County for the <br />one hundred (100) working days immediately prior to the award of Project Work to the <br />Contractor. <br />3.8.3 Prior to each Contractor performing any work on the Project, each Contractor <br />shall provide a list of his core employees to the CWA Administrator and the Trades Council. <br />Failure to do so will prohibit the Contractor from using any core employees. Upon request by <br />any Party to this Agreement, the Contractor hiring any core employee shall provide satisfactory <br />proof (i.e., payroll records, quarterly tax records, driver's license, voter registration, postal <br />address and such governmental documentation) evidencing the core employee's qualification as <br />a core employee to the CWA Administrator and the Trades Council, <br />Community Workforce Agreement <br />5581-1 <br />5 City of Santa Ana <br />