This policy applies to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, placement, upgrading and promotion, transfer, layoff and recall, termination, selection for company-sponsored training programs, rates of pay and other forms of compensation, use of facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored activities. Planning production by studying work orders, blueprints, engineering plans, materials, specifications, locations of surfaces, and machining parameters; interpreting geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T).