Bid. Employees shall be permitted to request vacation on the basis of classification seniority annually. All days of the year shall be available for the annual seniority bid. The vacation schedule shall be posted as of December 1st and will be closed as of January 1st. Subsequent changes to the bid may be made only by mutual consent of the parties. Employees may submit a request for three blocks of time off during each annual bid. Based upon classification seniority and subject to reasonable operation needs of the Department, employees shall be awarded three bids. Each employee will be allowed to exercise their first bid choice before any employee is granted a second bid choice. Each employee will then be allowed to exercise their third bid choice after the completion of the second bid choice. Junior members of the bargaining unit may not be awarded three bids, if they are outbid by more senior members.
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