Common use of Annual Vacation Scheduling Clause in Contracts

Annual Vacation Scheduling. (a) Subject to the operational requirements of the Employer, the accumulated vacation of a Nurse shall be scheduled within each fiscal year (April 1st to March 31st). (b) Paid vacation time off shall be scheduled by the Employer at a time mutually agreed between the Nurse and the Employer. (c) Where possible, a Nurse shall have the weekend off prior to the Nurse’s vacation. (d) The Employer shall make every reasonable effort to ensure that the request for vacation leave of the Nurse is approved. (e) When submitting a request for vacation leave for quarter 2, the Nurse shall provide the Employer with up to three (3) choices for vacation, listed in order of priority. If the Nurse has not provided three (3) choices for vacation and the Employer is unable to comply with the submitted request, the Nurse’s subsequent request for vacation leave for period 2 will only be considered after other requests are scheduled and posted by June 1st, in accordance with Article 10.06. These requests shall be granted on a first come, first served basis. (f) Where, the Employer is unable to comply with the request, the immediate management supervisor shall: i) give the reason for disapproval; and ii) make every reasonable effort to grant an alternative request by the Nurse in the amount and at the time requested. (g) Where the Nurse has vacation credits remaining unscheduled by September 1st of each year, the Employer shall indicate to the Nurse by October 1st that a plan is required to dispose of the remaining vacation before the end of the vacation year. If after this notification the Nurse does not submit a request by October 15th to use the remaining vacation, the Employer may schedule the vacation of a Nurse in accordance with the operational needs of the Employer. (h) The request for vacation may be made for any vacation quarterly period during the year but in any event shall be prior to Dec 1st. Vacation requests may be for any period during the year. (i) Before the Employer can grant a vacation request in advance of a quarterly period as set out in Article 10.06 (a), the requesting Nurse must demonstrate to the Employer that Nurses with more Seniority on that unit agree with the advance request. If a senior Nurse does not agree with an advance vacation request in accordance with this provision, the senior Nurse must agree to take vacation for the same period covered by the original advance vacation request. This provision does not apply to quarter 2 requests.