Vacation Entitlement i) A transferring employee will accrue vacation in accordance with the collective agreement of the designated employer. ii) A transferring employee will have pre-approved vacation requests honoured. iii) Vacation entitlement not used by the employee at the time of transfer shall transfer with the employee to the designated employer, if applicable. iv) Vacation scheduling will be in accordance with the applicable collective agreement and the practice of the designated employer.
VACATION AND VACATION PAY 11.01 Employees shall be entitled to vacations according to the following schedule: Period Worked Time Off Vacation Pay Less than 1 year 1 day per calendar month worked, to a maximum of 7 4% 1 year but less than 4 years 2 weeks 4% 4 years but less than 8 years 3 weeks 6% 8 years but less than 15 years 4 weeks 8% 15 years but less than 23 years 5 weeks 10% 23 years but less than 28 years 6 weeks 12% 28 years or more 7 weeks 14% 11.02 The date for determining the "period worked" shall be the employee's anniversary date or date of hire. a. On or by April 1 of each year the Employer shall post a blank vacation schedule sheet in each department. Between April 1 and May 1 each employee shall have the right to indicate on this sheet the time during which she/he prefers to take vacation. Employees may indicate vacation preference by seniority. b. Employees if entitled shall be allowed a maximum of three (3) weeks’ vacation during July and August, unless extra time is available. An employee who is entitled to more than three (3) weeks' vacation may request in writing to take all of her/his vacation at one time only for special circumstances. c. Employees who request a week of vacation after the May 15th date shall make their request to their manager two (2) weeks prior to the posting of the schedule in which vacation was requested. Such vacation request shall be granted if the request does not interfere with the posted vacation schedules. d. Employees who have vacation entitlement in excess of one (1) week may take one (1) of their additional weeks of entitlement in individual days. The employee must notify the Employer that she will exercise this option at the time she books her other weeks of vacation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no employee may take single day vacation for the period from June 15 to September 10. Single vacation days shall be treated like floating holidays as in section 12.01(b), except that only fourteen (14) days notice is required. The time must be mutually agreed upon between the Employer and the employee and will be subject to the Employer’s ability to fully staff the Home. For part-time employees this week of single days will be prorated (i.e. normally works four (4) days biweekly, one (1) week of vacation would be two (2) days). As per the historical understanding, a week’s vacation is defined as beginning on Monday and ending the following Sunday. 11.04 The completed vacation schedules shall be determined in discussions between the Employer and the Union stewards between May 1 and May 15. The guiding factors shall be seniority and family circumstances. Whenever a conflict arises that cannot be settled amicably, the dispute shall be resolved by the Employer. The parties agree to continue past practice in vacation scheduling. Any vacation requests not granted during the period mentioned above shall be considered denied and must be re-submitted should a vacation period become available after the deadline of May 15th. 11.05 Notwithstanding sections 11.03 and 11.04 of the collective agreement, the parties agree that the scheduling of vacations shall be done on the basis of seniority for each shift and for each floor in order to allow as many employees as is reasonably possible to be on vacation at any one time. 11.06 The Employer shall post the final schedules on or about May 15. These schedules shall not be changed except with the consent of the Employer, the xxxxxxx, and the employee(s) affected. a. The vacation year shall be from July 1 of one year to June 30th of the next year. Vacation for the previous year may not be taken consecutively with the vacation for the current year. b. Employees have the option to receive vacation pay on the pay day immediately prior to the commencement of her/his vacation. However, the default shall be that employees receive vacation payment as if they worked. Vacation pay shall be the income an employee would normally have received had she/he worked a normal schedule during the vacation period, provided there are sufficient funds in the employee’s vacation account. c. Vacation pay is calculated at the applicable percentage over the employee's gross earnings as defined by the Income Tax Act. 11.08 All employees who have completed one (1) year of service shall be required to take two (2) weeks of vacation unless the employee has been on partial extended disability, maternity leave, or Workers' Compensation for a period of two (2) months or more. 11.09 When an employee's employment is terminated for any reason, full payment for vacations earned but not taken shall form part of such employee's termination pay. 11.10 Vacations and personal leaves of absence will normally not be granted during the period of December 15 to January 5. However, the Home agrees to allow a total of four (4) employees from the nursing department and one (1) employee from each other department to take vacation during the Christmas period. The Home will look at the vacation requests of the most senior employees who have not taken vacation during this time frame in the last five (5) years. Vacation requests under this Article should be submitted as per Article 11.04. 11.11 Once the employee has fulfilled the requirements of Article 11.08 she/he may request one (1) additional payout during the year to cover vacation monies earned but not taken. The employee shall give the Employer three (3) weeks notice of desire to exercise this option. It is acknowledged that this article will be interpreted to mean that an employee, after fulfilling the requirements of 11.08, may request a full payment of all vacation monies earned but not taken and may then take the rest of her/his vacation at a later date pursuant to the agreement without pay.
Paid Vacation Except as otherwise provided in this Article, paid vacation shall be granted no later than the fiscal year immediately following the fiscal year in which it is earned. Following the completion of six (6) months of service, the employee shall be entitled to use earned paid vacation.