Leave with Pay for Religious Observances. When an employee requests time off to participate in a religious observance required by that employee’s faith, the Employer shall make every reasonable effort to allow the employee to be absent from duty. To protect the employee against any loss of pay by reason of such absence, the Employer may, operational requirements permitting, vary the employee’s hours of work. If it is not possible to vary the employee’s hours of work or if the employee prefers that the hours of work not be varied, the employee may take compensatory leave or annual leave for this purpose.
Leave with Pay for Religious Observances. When an employee requests time off to participate in a religious observance required by that employee’s faith, the Employer shall make every reasonable effort to allow the employee to be absent from duty. To protect the employee against any loss of pay by reason of such absence, the Employer may, operational requirements permitting, vary the employee’s hours of work. If it is not possible to vary the employee’s hours of work or if the employee prefers that the hours of work not be varied, the employee may take compensatory leave or annual leave for this purpose. Leave without Pay with Income-Averaging For the purpose of reducing the number of hours worked weekly or reducing the number of weeks worked in the of a vacation year, an employee may, by requesting supplementary vacation leave credits pursuant to clause granted leave pay and the employee’s resulting reduced pay shall be averaged over the year. ARTICLE
