Vacation Accrual
A. During the first three (3) years of employment, a full-time employee in a regular or limited-term position shall earn .0385 hours of vacation for each hour of pay during his or her regularly scheduled workweek (approximately eighty [80] hours per year). Part-time employees will earn vacation on a pro- rated basis. Such credit shall be applied to the employee's vacation accrual account only upon completion of each pay period.
B. After an employee in a regular or limited-term position has been paid for six thousand two hundred forty (6240) regularly scheduled hours, the employee shall earn .0577 hours of vacation for each hour of pay during his or her regularly scheduled workweek (approximately one hundred twenty [120] hours per year), but not to exceed credit for more than eighty (80) regularly scheduled hours in any pay period. Such credit shall be applied to the employee's vacation accrual account only upon completion of each pay period.
C. Commencing with the pay period following that in which the employee completed ten (10) years of continuous full-time County service (20,800 regularly scheduled hours), an employee in a regular or limited-term position shall earn .077 hours of vacation for each hour of pay during his or her regularly scheduled workweek (approximately one hundred sixty [160] hours per year), under the same terms and conditions as under subsection B., above.
D. The maximum allowable vacation credit an employee may accrue at any one
(1) time for employees with less than ten (10) years of continuous County service shall be two hundred forty (240) hours. The maximum allowable vacation credit an employee may accrue at any one (1) time for employees with ten (10) or more years of continuous County service (20,800 regularly scheduled hours) shall be three hundred twenty (320) hours. An employee who has accrued the maximum allowable vacation credit will not accrue additional credit until the employee’s vacation credit drops below the maximum allowed.
Vacation Leave Accrual After a full-time employee has been in pay status for eighty (80) non-overtime hours in a calendar month, the employee will accrue vacation leave according to the rate schedule below. Vacation leave accrual for part-time employees will be proportionate to the number of hours the part-time employee is in pay status during the month to that required for full-time employment.
Sick Leave Accrual All eligible employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of four (4) hours per pay period of continuous employment beginning with their date of eligibility. Eligible employees being paid for less than a full eighty (80) hour pay period shall have sick leave accruals pro-rated in accord with the schedule set forth in Appendix D.
Vacation Accrual Rates Laid off employees who are re-employed shall have the vacation accrual rate they held immediately prior to layoff restored.
Leave Accrual After the first 30 days of active military service in any one calendar year, employees shall not accrue City-paid vacation, holiday, or sick leave benefits or other forms of paid leave; provided, however, that any public employee on military leave for intermittent training periods shall continue to accrue the same vacation, sick, and holiday leave up to a maximum period of 180 cumulative days per calendar year as if the employee had not been on military leave.
Vacation Accumulation (a) Vacations are not cumulative from year to year.
(b) Notwithstanding the above, the Employer may grant a special request from an employee to carryover a maximum of five (5) vacation days into the next year. The employee shall specify in her request to the Employer the purpose for which she is seeking the carryover.
(c) During the first year of employment, a full time employee with at least six
Deferred Compensation Account The Employer shall maintain on its books and records a Deferred Compensation Account to record its liability for future payments of deferred compensation and interest thereon required to be paid to the Employee or his beneficiary pursuant to this Agreement. However, the Employer shall not be required to segregate or earmark any of its assets for the benefit of the Employee or his beneficiary. The amount reflected in said Deferred Compensation Account shall be available for the Employer's general corporate purposes and shall be available to the Employer's general creditors. The amount reflected in said Deferred Compensation Account shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, attachment or garnishment by creditors of the Employee or his beneficiary, and any attempt to anticipate, alienate, transfer, assign or attach the same shall be void. Neither the Employee nor his beneficiary may assert any right or claim against any specific assets of the Employer. The Employee or his beneficiary shall have only a contractual right against the Employer for the amount reflected in said Deferred Compensation Account and shall have the status of general unsecured creditors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in order to pay amounts which may become due under this Agreement, the Employer may establish a grantor trust (hereinafter the "Trust") within the meaning of Section 671 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The assets in such Trust shall at all times be subject to the claims of the general creditors of the Employer in the event of the Employer's bankruptcy or insolvency, and neither the Employee nor any beneficiary shall have any preferred claim or right, or any beneficial ownership interest in, any such assets of the Trust prior to the time such assets are paid to the Employee or beneficiary pursuant to this Agreement. The Employer shall credit to said Deferred Compensation Account the amount of any salary to which the Employee becomes entitled and which is deferred pursuant to Section 1 hereof, such amount to be credited as of the first business day of each month. The Employer shall also credit to said Deferred Compensation Account an Interest Equivalent in the amount and manner set forth in Section 3 hereof.
Vacation Periods Vacation schedules will be set by the employee’s immediate supervisor(s) and sent to the Office of Human Resources for approval. Employees may request a particular period for vacation. Vacation days may not be taken in advance of their accrual. Those employees who are on a 12-month teacher contract are paid during Spring Break and Winter Recess, however, are not expected to be in attendance or perform duties during those breaks.
VACATION AND VACATION PAY 9.01 All employees who are covered under this agreement shall receive as vacation pay in accordance with the schedule under Article 9.04, the appropriate percentage of the employee's total earnings exclusive of the Employer's contribution to the Union's Benefit Plan.
9.02 When vacations are requested by more employees than can be reasonably scheduled to be away at any one time and still carry on efficient company operations, then the choice of those employees permitted to take their vacation will be insofar as possible based on customer requirements, efficient operation of the Shop, ability of employees to perform available work and length of service of the employees.
9.03 The Employer shall post annually during January a sheet on which employees may choose their vacation period. This list shall be completed by the employees no later than May 1. Any employee failing to select vacation time by May 1 will be deemed to have forfeited their privilege based on service credit, at that time, for vacation selection purposes. The Employer shall post the final vacation schedule no later than May 31. Any request for further changes to the final schedule must be made to the Employer giving the Employer at least four (4) weeks’ notice. If a Statutory holiday (as listed under Article 10.01) falls during an employee's vacation time, the employee will have the option to take that holiday at the end of the vacation period. This will be scheduled at the time the employee schedules his vacation.
9.04 Employees shall receive vacation time if requested in accordance with the provisions outlined below. Generally, two weeks may be taken in June, July and August, but with advance notice (per Article 9.03) and as mutually agreed, more may be taken. LENGTH OF SERVICE BASED ON DATE OF HIRING (as of July 1st of the current year) Vacation Pay Vacation Time 0 – 3 Months 4% 2 weeks After 3 Months 10% 3 weeks
9.05 The above amounts of vacation pay are remitted to the Union office with the regular monthly remittance.
VACATIONS AND VACATION PAY 9.01 All employees who are covered under this Agreement shall receive vacation pay as a percent of the employee's total earnings exclusive of the Employer's contribution to the Union's Pension, Health Benefit Plan, Education and Assistance Fund and Industry Fund. Income tax shall be deducted weekly from the employee's earnings increased by the amount of vacation pay.
a. Employees shall, upon hire, receive ten percent (10%) vacation pay, and up to three weeks of vacation.
b. Employees with ten or more years of service with the Employer shall receive twelve percent (12%) vacation pay, and up to four weeks of vacation.
9.02 Vacation periods shall be arranged by mutual agreement between the Employer and each employee. Employees shall be granted their vacation periods as requested insofar as it is practical and in accordance with seniority, unless the Employer decides to grant all vacations at one time, in which case the Employer shall give the employees at least six (6) weeks advance notice.
9.03 The Employer agrees to remit the Vacation Pay of each employee as agreed upon in 9.01 of this Agreement and in accordance with the regulation set by the Employment Standards Branch, Ministry of Labour, monthly before, but not later than the fifteenth of the following month to the Union using a separate cheque marked "Vacation Pay", accompanied by a list on which all deductions and contributions as mentioned in 6.01, 13.02, 14.02a, 14.02b, 18.01, 19.01 and Schedule "A" are recorded.
9.04 In accordance with the agreement with the Employment Standards Branch, Ministry of Labour, the Board of Trustees of the Union's Vacation Pay Trust Fund, is obligated to take any steps which may be available to them either in law or in equity or in bankruptcy as may be necessary or desirable to effect collection from delinquent Employers. All costs incurred in the collection of said payment will be charged to such defaulting Employer.
9.05 The Employer agrees to give the auditor of the Union's Trust Fund the privilege to examine the Employer's records concerning hours and monies forwarded to the Union, if and when the auditor so desires. Any date for such an examination will be pre-arranged in writing between the auditor, the Employer and the Union.
