Common use of Full Weeks of Vacation Clause in Contracts

Full Weeks of Vacation. In the first round of selections, vacations will be selected in full weeks and the weeks so selected must be taken as full weeks. For purposes of selection only, the last week in December will be considered a full week in the current year if four (4) or more of the calendar days in that week are in the current year. It will be considered a full week in the following year if four (4) or more of the calendar days in that week are in the following year. Employees who do not elect to "carry over" a part of their vacation to which they are entitled in the current calendar year into the following calendar year and want to schedule all or part of their following year's vacation in the period of January 1 through the last full calendar week of May, inclusive, of the following calendar year, will have the option of scheduling their vacations in the following calendar year during this round of selections. Employees who are eligible for two (2) weeks or more of vacation in any calendar year may schedule in the following year, by full weeks or multiples thereof, a part of the vacation for which they are eligible in the current calendar year, subject to the following terms: (1) Any week or weeks of vacation "carried over" from one calendar year into the next must be scheduled and taken no later than the last full calendar week of May of the year into which the week or weeks are carried over. (2) For all weeks of vacation "carried over" from one calendar year to the next, at least a like number of weeks of vacation for the calendar year into which the "carry over" is shifted must also be scheduled and taken no later than the last full calendar week of May of the same year.