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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 81 of 217 Section 4. Employees adversely affected by changes in technology shall be entitled to pay and level retention in accordance with the agreement of th e Parties. Such employees shall also be notified of any right with respect to early retirement and given the fullest consideration for early (discontinued service) retirement that law and regulation provide. Section 5. Nothing in this Article shall be con strued as a waiver of any Union or Agency right. ARTICLE 49 STUDIES OF EMPLOYEES AND THEIR WORKING CONDITIONS Section 1. Mass medical and/or psychological study participation by bargaining unit employees shall be on a voluntary basis. All individual medi cal and/or psychological information acquired by an outside study group and their associates shall be kept strictly confidential. This information shall not be disclosed to the Agency with identification of participating individuals. Publication of data re sulting from a controller - related study shall not identify individuals and shall be limited to group statistics. This Section does not apply to time and motion studies. Employees shall not, as a condition of employment, be required to participate in any st udies. Section 2. Before entering into a study, the Union and the employees shall receive a document stipulating the conditions under which the study will be conducted and a statement of intent and practice by which data will be held in confidence. The Un ion shall receive a copy of the study concurrently with its submission to the Agency. Section 3. The Agency shall refrain from any efforts to relate data to any individual participant in such a study. Section 4. Participating controllers or their designa ted Union representative shall be afforded an opportunity to review and comment, in advance, on any publication based on or derived from such controller studies. Section 5. Any participation in studies shall not adversely affect any compensation, benefits or travel and per diem to which an employee is otherwise entitled. Section 6. All examinations shall be conducted on the employee's duty time. Section 7. The Union may designate a representative to serve as its liaison between a study group and/or the A gency. Section 8. The Agency shall not conduct any study that involves the time and motion measurement of employees or their job performance, without notifying and affording an opportunity for participation by the Union. ARTICLE 50 SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNA IRES Section 1. The Agency recognizes that it is in its interest to have Union support for surveys of bargaining unit employees. The Agency shall not conduct surveys without providing the Union an opportunity to review and comment on the questions and rel ated issues. The Union will be provided an advance copy of any survey, prior to distribution. Section 2. Surveys shall be conducted on the employee's duty time.

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