Selection of Vacation Leave Blocks. The vacation calendar shall run from January 1st through December 31st of each year. Vacation leave among covered employees in the bargaining unit in an office must be scheduled between the first work day in January and the last work day of February each year, on a rotation basis, with the most senior bargaining unit employee in that office choosing first. Each such employee may choose no more than eighty (80) hours of vacation for full-time employees, and a pro-rated number of hours for part-time employees, in no more than four groups of days per rotation. An employee may choose not to participate in any or all rotations. The rotation must continue until all such employees who desire to do so have had an opportunity to schedule their leave. All vacation requests made after March 1st will be considered on a first come, first served basis, without respect to seniority. For the purposes of this Article, a “group of days” is one or more consecutive (Monday through Friday) work days. A Friday and Monday would be two groups, not one group.
