Broken Vacations Sample Clauses

Broken Vacations. Employees may take their vacations in broken periods, subject to the approval of the Department Manager. The responsibility to provide service at all times is the principal guide. No vacation may be less than one (1) day.

Broken Vacations. (a) Vacations may be taken in broken periods but normally at least 2 weeks of the year's entitlement must be taken as a continuous period. Employees shall select their vacation periods in order of seniority as defined in this Agreement. However, only one vacation period shall be selected by seniority until all employees in the signing group have selected one period. Subsequently, all employees in the signing group who have chosen to take their vacation in broken periods shall select in order of seniority for a second vacation period and again for subsequent periods until all periods are chosen. (b) An employee shall sign up for vacation within their regular signing group by seniority except that: 1. An employee who has a temporary assignment in an area outside of the employee’s regular signing group prior to vacation sign-up and where the employee selection is during the period of such temporary assignment, the employee shall select their vacation periods in order of seniority within the signing group in the area of the temporary assignment. 2. An employee whose vacation period has already been selected and approved within a signing group shall continue to receive their selected vacation period if they are subsequently directed by management to work outside of that signing group. 3. Where the employee has bid into a temporary assignment outside of their signing group or has otherwise voluntarily taken a temporary assignment outside of their signing group, the manager will make reasonable efforts to accommodate the employee’s selected vacation period having regard to operational needs.