Failure to Report Before or After a Vacation Period of One Week or More. An employee who fails to report for work on his or her scheduled work-day immediately before or immediately after his or her vacation period, or when the vacation period has been extended by the use of a personal day, floating holiday or individual vacation day, the employee fails to report for work immediately before or immediately after the personal leave day(s), floating holiday or individual vacation day(s) taken immediately before or immediately after his or her vacation period, will, after reporting for and working on the regularly scheduled work-day on which he or she does report under existing rules and regulations, be automatically suspended for the next following three of his or her scheduled work-days, subject to the grievance procedure in the event of extenuating circumstances provided that the Manager, Supervisor or Department Head, or his or her representative in each case, is advised of the facts at the time that the employee reports for work on the day that he or she returns to work. As provided in Paragraph 8-6 herein, however, any employee who on any occasion without reasonable explanation fails to report within forty- eight (48) consecutive hours shall be considered as having voluntarily quit the employ of the Company. It is understood that the Company shall have the right to require any such employee to provide tangible evidence satisfactory to the Company, to support his or her stated reason for failure to report on his or her scheduled work day immediately before or immediately after his or her vacation, which in the case of claimed illness could include a doctor's certificate describing the nature of the claimed illness.
