Vacation Selection. This language replaces all of section 13.8 from the Master. Management will divide its department into work groups. Management will secure a calendar and provide it to the Union Xxxxxxx as a vacation planner. The planner will indicate the number of employees in each classification who may take vacation on any particular day. Any time period noted on the calendar as a blackout period will be subject to the provisions below. A vacation planner will be circulated by the Union Xxxxxxx between November 1 and December 15 of each year. The vacation planner will be circulated in seniority order. Each employee shall make his/her vacation selection as soon as possible but shall have no more than forty eight (48) hours to do so. This time period may be extended by management in the event of extenuating circumstances. Each employee may request as many vacation days as are available to them within the calendar year. If an employee has insufficient vacation or compensatory time to cover a scheduled vacation day selected, that vacation day shall be considered cancelled, and the employee is expected to report to work on that day. The employee with the greater classification seniority shall be given priority in his/her choice of vacation time during the selection time. Blackout periods. Any time noted on the vacation planner as a blackout period shall be subject to the following special conditions. Employees may request vacation only for days that are identified on the vacation planner as available for vacation. Extended vacations (vacations of three (3) or more consecutive days) are highly discouraged and will be approved on a case-by-case basis. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period understand they will be subject to the short notice vacation rule. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period must complete a vacation request form not less than two weeks prior to the vacation request date. Employees understand that vacation during the blackout period will only be approved in very rare circumstances and even though employees have signed up for vacation during the vacation planning stage, there is no guarantee the time shall be granted. The list of approved vacation requests will be posted no later than thirty (30) days after the completion of the vacation circulation. Vacations during the black out periods may be on the calendar, but are not considered approved until requested and management approves such requests under the short notice/emergency vacation procedure. Short notice/emergency vacation requests. After the vacation list has been posted, additional vacation requests will be accepted first come, first served except that disputes over simultaneous requests shall be resolved by seniority. Short notice vacation leave may be requested less than fourteen (14) days but no less than twenty-four (24) hours before the requested day off on a first come/first served basis. Vacations with less than twenty-four (24) hours advanced notice should only be requested in emergencies. Management will make every effort to notify the employee by the end of the employee’s workday as to the approval or disapproval of the vacation request. If the request is denied, the employee will be given the reason for the disapproval. The approval or disapproval of short notice or emergency vacation will not be subject to the grievance procedure.
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Vacation Selection. This language replaces all of section 13.8 from the Master. Management will divide its department into work groups. Management will secure a calendar and provide it to the Union Xxxxxxx as a vacation planner. The planner will indicate the number of employees in each classification who may take vacation on any particular day. Any time period noted on the calendar as a blackout period will be subject to the provisions below. A vacation planner will be circulated by the Union Xxxxxxx between November 1 and December 15 of each year. The vacation planner will be circulated in seniority order. Each employee shall make his/her vacation selection as soon as possible but shall have no more than forty eight twenty four (4824) hours to do so. This time period may be extended by management in the event of extenuating circumstances. Each employee may request as many vacation days as are available to them within the calendar year. If an employee has insufficient vacation or compensatory time to cover a scheduled vacation day selected, that vacation day shall be considered cancelled, and the employee is expected to report to work on that day. The employee with the greater classification seniority shall be given priority in his/her choice of vacation time during the selection time. Blackout periods. Any time noted on the The vacation planner as a blackout period shall be subject to the following special conditions. Employees may request vacation only for days that are identified on the vacation planner as available for vacation. Extended vacations (vacations of three (3) or more consecutive days) are highly discouraged and will be approved on a case-by-case basis. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period understand they will be subject to the short notice vacation rule. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period must complete a vacation request form not less than two weeks prior to the vacation request date. Employees understand that vacation during the blackout period will only be approved in very rare circumstances and even though employees have signed up for vacation during the vacation planning stage, there is no guarantee the time shall be granted. The list of approved vacation requests will be posted no later than thirty (30) days after the completion of the vacation circulation. Vacations during the black out periods may be on the calendar, but are not considered approved until requested and management approves such requests under the short notice/emergency vacation procedure. Short notice/emergency vacation requests. After the vacation list has been posted, additional vacation requests will be accepted first come, first served except that disputes over simultaneous requests shall be resolved by seniority. Short notice vacation leave may Vacation requests must be requested less than submitted at least fourteen (14) days but no less than twenty-four (24) hours before in advance of the requested day off on day(s) off. Approval or disapproval of a first come/first served basis. Vacations with less than twenty-four (24) hours advanced notice should only requested vacation period shall be requested in emergencies. Management will make every effort given to notify the employee by the end of the employee’s workday as to the approval or along with a reason for disapproval within five (5) calendar days of the vacation request, except in cases of less than a fourteen (14) day notice of request. If Management reserves the request is denied, the employee will be given the reason for the disapprovalright to approve or disapprove short term or emergency vacation in quarter hour increments. The approval or disapproval of short notice term or emergency vacation will not be subject to the grievance procedure.
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Vacation Selection. This language replaces all of section 13.8 from the Master. Management will divide its department into work groups. Management will secure a calendar and provide it to the Union Xxxxxxx as a vacation planner. The planner will indicate the number of employees in each classification who may take vacation on any particular day. Any time period noted on the calendar as a blackout period will be subject to the provisions below. A vacation planner will selection list shall be circulated posted for each shift each calendar year in accordance with departmental policy. All vacation selections shall be completed by the Union Xxxxxxx between November 1 and December 15 of each yeardate set by management's policy. The vacation planner leave shall be taken in three day units, except when the total vacation days are not divisible by three, the remaining day(s) may be scheduled as a single day. The vacation seniority list shall begin with the most senior employee and end with the least senior employee. The most senior employee shall select first choice of vacation (be it 1, or 2, 3 or 4 weeks) depending on length of service, by that employee's first duty day after the vacation calendar requests begin. The next most senior employee shall select his first choice of vacation and so on down the list until all employees have selected their first choice. A firefighter shall have until the beginning of his next duty day if necessary to make a selection except no firefighter shall wait until the next duty day to make his selection if the delay conflicts with management's policy on when the calendar shall be completed. This policy does not apply to single day requests. A firefighter shall not have more than seven consecutive duty days of vacation unless unanimously agreed to by the rest of the employees on that shift. There must be unanimous agreement to extend consecutive vacation. It is recognized that there is a disruption of service and loss of current training when an employee is off for an extended period of time. In the event the above procedure is not complied with the employee in question loses first choice until the second round, at which time the employee may make both first and second choices. The above procedures shall be repeated until all vacation selections have been completed for the vacation year as defined by policy. After the vacation schedule is complete, vacation selections may be made, allowing two firefighters to be off at the same time and to select single vacation days or single PT vacation days, subject to approval by the Fire Chief and Shift Officers. A firefighter may only use either vacation days or PT vacation days in single allotments and shall not exceed three single vacation days per calendar year plus one PT vacation day. In no circumstance will a single day vacation request xxxxx a week off. The request must be made a minimum of two duty days in advance. It is understood by the parties that all vacation selections are requests until approved by the Fire Chief. Approval will take place within a reasonable amount of time. An approved list will be circulated in seniority orderposted on the bulletin board. Each employee shall make his/her vacation selection as soon as possible but shall have no more than forty eight (48) hours to do so. This time period may be extended by management It is also understood and agreed that in the event of extenuating circumstancesextreme emergency or hardship, approved vacations may be cancelled. Each employee may request as many vacation days as are available to them within the calendar year. If However an employee has insufficient vacation or compensatory time to cover a scheduled vacation day selected, that vacation day shall be considered cancelled, and the employee is expected to report to work on that day. The employee with the greater classification seniority shall be given priority in his/her employee's first (week) choice of vacation time during the selection time. Blackout periods. Any time noted on the vacation planner as a blackout period shall be subject to the following special conditions. Employees may request vacation only for days that are identified on the vacation planner as available for vacation. Extended vacations (vacations of three (3) or more consecutive days) are highly discouraged and will be approved on a case-by-case basis. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period understand they will be subject to the short notice vacation rule. Employees signing up for vacation during the blackout period must complete a vacation request form not less than two weeks prior to the vacation request date. Employees understand that vacation during the blackout period will only be approved in very rare circumstances and even though employees have signed up for vacation during the vacation planning stage, there is no guarantee the time shall be granted. The list of approved vacation requests will be posted no later than thirty (30) days after the completion of the vacation circulation. Vacations during the black out periods may be on the calendar, but are not considered approved until requested and management approves such requests under the short notice/emergency vacation procedure. Short notice/emergency vacation requests. After the vacation list has been posted, additional vacation requests will be accepted first come, first served except that disputes over simultaneous requests shall be resolved by seniority. Short notice vacation leave may be requested less than fourteen (14) days but no less than twenty-four (24) hours before the requested day off on a first come/first served basis. Vacations with less than twenty-four (24) hours advanced notice should only be requested in emergencies. Management will make every effort to notify the employee by the end of the employee’s workday as to the approval or disapproval of the vacation request. If the request is denied, the employee will be given the reason for the disapproval. The approval or disapproval of short notice or emergency vacation will not be subject to the grievance procedureguaranteed.
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