Production Schedules. When a mandatory Saturday production is scheduled, employees who have previously booked medical appointments will be required to request a leave of absence for that day. Provided that they are able to bring in documentation, supporting their appointment the next business day their request will be approved. Any employee who has booked vacation either on a Friday or a Monday or any number of consecutive days, preceded or following a mandatory production day will not be required to report to work on that Saturday. Should an employee wish to work that day, regardless of whether they have booked vacation, they will be able to do so. It will be the employee’s responsibility to notify the company of that request, per normal process. Should the employee be away from work when the signup sheet is posted, it is the employee’s responsibility to provide in writing, prior to the vacation that they would like to be contacted should Saturday production become available. Due to the necessity for Transfreight to meet customer production levels, leave of absence requests for any Saturday work will not be accepted while an employee still has vacation days available. Driving team members who work a route which include Saturdays and have a need to take a Saturday off must request and use available vacation days. The one acceptation to this will be the ability for driving team members to submit a leave of absence request for a Saturday production day, preceded a week’s vacation, provided they have worked their scheduled day off (if applicable). Driving team members who book a week’s vacation will only have five
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