Maximum Vacation Accumulation. Employees may defer all or any portion of earned vacation to succeeding calendar years up to a maximum accumulated vacation of eight (8) weeks (320 Hours). The City shall require all employees to reduce their accrued vacation balances to no more than 320 hours, as of the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding. To effectuate the requirement that employees not accrue more than 320 hours vacation leave, the parties agree that not later than November 15 of each year of this Understanding, the City will provide the Union and Department Heads with a report identifying all employees who have accrued two hundred and eighty (280) hours of vacation leave and appear in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit. Employees who have accrued 280 hours of vacation leave, as of that date, will be advised by their supervisor that they must take vacation leave to reduce their vacation leave accrual by February of the following year. Supervisors should be flexible in granting employee vacation requests to those employees above, or approaching the 320 hours limit, and further, that with regard to employees who are in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit, no vacation request by such an employee shall be unreasonably denied. If an employee who is in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit fails by December 31 of each year of this Understanding to schedule a vacation to be taken before the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding, the City has the authority to direct the employee to go on vacation leave to reduce the employee’s accrued vacation to a maximum of 320 hours. If, due to operational necessity, a department head denies an employee vacation leave and does not provide the employee with an alternate vacation date, and as a result causes the employee to exceed the 320 vacation leave limit, said employee shall nonetheless be entitled to use that vacation leave in the next calendar year to the extent necessary to reduce their accrued vacation to no more than 320 hours.
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Samples: Memorandum of Understanding, Memorandum of Understanding, Memorandum of Understanding
Maximum Vacation Accumulation. Employees may defer all or any portion of earned vacation to succeeding calendar years up to a maximum accumulated vacation of eight (8) weeks (320 Hours). The City shall require all employees to reduce their accrued vacation balances to no more than 320 hours, as of the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding. To effectuate the requirement that employees not accrue more than 320 hours vacation leave, the parties agree that not later than November 15 of each year of this Understanding, the City will provide the Union and Department Heads with a report identifying all employees who have accrued two hundred and eighty (280) hours of vacation leave and appear in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit. Employees who have accrued 280 hours of vacation leave, as of that date, will be advised by their supervisor that they must take vacation leave to reduce their vacation leave accrual by February of the following year. Supervisors should be flexible in granting employee vacation requests to those employees above, or approaching the 320 hours limit, and further, that with regard to employees who are in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit, no vacation request by such an employee shall be unreasonably denied. If an employee who is in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit fails by December 31 of each year of this Understanding to schedule a vacation to be taken before the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding, the City has the authority to direct the employee to go on vacation leave to reduce the employee’s accrued vacation to a maximum of 320 hours. If, due to operational necessity, a department head denies an employee vacation leave and does not provide the employee with an alternate vacation date, and as a result causes the employee to exceed the 320 vacation leave limit, said employee shall nonetheless be entitled to use that vacation leave in the next calendar year to the extent necessary to reduce their accrued vacation to no more than 320 hours.
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Samples: Memorandum of Understanding, Memorandum of Understanding
Maximum Vacation Accumulation. Employees may defer all or any portion of earned vacation to succeeding calendar years up to a maximum accumulated vacation of eight (8) weeks (320 Hours). The City Authority shall require all employees to reduce their accrued vacation balances to no more than 320 hours, as of the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding. To effectuate the requirement that employees not accrue more than 320 hours vacation leave, the parties agree that not later than November 15 of each year of this Understanding, the City Authority will provide the Union and Department Heads with a report identifying all employees who have accrued two hundred and eighty (280) hours of vacation leave and appear in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit. Employees who have accrued 280 hours of vacation leave, as of that date, will be advised by their supervisor that they must take vacation leave to reduce their vacation leave accrual by February of the following year. Supervisors should be flexible in granting employee vacation requests to those employees above, or approaching the 320 hours limit, and further, that with regard to employees who are in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit, no vacation request by such an employee shall be unreasonably denied. If an employee who is in danger of exceeding the 320 hour limit fails by December 31 of each year of this Understanding to schedule a vacation to be taken before the last pay period in February of each year of this Understanding, the City Authority has the authority to direct the employee to go on vacation leave to reduce the employee’s accrued vacation to a maximum of 320 hours. If, due to operational necessity, a department head the Executive Director denies an employee vacation leave and does not provide the employee with an alternate vacation date, and as a result causes the employee to exceed the 320 vacation leave limit, said employee shall nonetheless be entitled to use that vacation leave in the next calendar year to the extent necessary to reduce their accrued vacation to no more than 320 hours.
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Samples: Memorandum of Understanding