Mandatory Vacation Leave. A. Every employee with more than five (5) years of employment with the Employer shall take a minimum of one hundred sixty (160) hours in accordance with Section 12.10, except as noted below.
Mandatory Vacation Leave. Every Deck Officer shall accrue vacation leave not used; provided, however, that every Deck Officer with more than five (5) years of service with the Employer shall take a minimum of twenty working days in five (5) working day segments of vacation leave annually; and the Delegate Committee shall assign such vacation leave to any Deck Officer who fails to submit a vacation request and is unreachable by phone. The Master with the most seniority (known as the Commodore – Rule 2.01.06) may choose their vacation without submitting a bid. Vacation picks will be done by phone by the delegate committee beginning no later than the first Monday in October, with employees being called in seniority order, until all Masters have been contacted. After all Masters have been contacted, the same process will begin for the Mates. All vacation bidding shall be concluded no later than October 15 of each year. In order to complete the phone calling in a timely manner, and reduce the time the Deck Officers must be available by the phone, all Deck Officers must be available for a phone call. Once a Deck Officer has been called he or she will have a maximum of 15 minutes to declare his or her vacation selection. Extra time will not be given to any Deck Officer except in the case of a Deck Officer going to or from work or being at work and temporarily unavailable by phone.
