Service Core Allowance The company shall pay $0.95 per hour for all work carried out in construction of service core. This allowance will be adjusted annually (effective from 1 June) in accordance with CPI movements (All Groups, Melbourne) for the preceding 12 months to March (increases to be rounded to the nearest 5 cents).
Vacation Scheduling The following language applies to all employees: A. The vacation selection process shall commence on November 1st of each year. Employees shall submit their requests for vacation time off on or before December 31st of each year. The month of January shall be used to resolve all vacation selection overlaps that exceed the weekly allotment of employees permitted off in a department or classification by seniority. The vacation selection process shall be completed by January 31st of each year and the final approved vacation schedule shall be posted at that time. The minimum number of employees permitted off on vacation in a department or classification in a week shall be: 1. The Week of the “snapshot” is the last week of October. 2. Those employees on Leaves of Absence contained in the Collective Agreement, Maternity Leave, Worksafe Claims, Unpaid Sick Leave, or other Leaves of a statutory nature whose expected return to work date falls after September 15th will be excluded from the “snapshot”. Any employee who is off on a leave of absence and who is not expected to return in the upcoming vacation year, shall be entitled to select vacation weeks by seniority, however, they shall be counted in addition to the minimum number of employees allowed off in one week. 3. Employees hired within 30 days of the calculation week will be excluded from the snapshot number. 4. The formula number will be rounded up from 0.5, (example 9.5 = 10) and rounded down from 0.4 (example 9.4 = 9). 5. The parties agree that any unanticipated adverse impact shall be managed through the Growing our Future meeting and/or Senior Leaders meeting. Should the Employer have operational issues regarding the vacation schedule, they shall contact the Union Representative for the store to Once the vacation schedule is posted any additional vacation time off requests, not already booked, shall be granted on a “first come, first serve” basis. The only exception is available vacation time off during the months of July and August where these slots shall be made available by seniority. Any changes to the vacation schedule shall be by mutual agreement. Should changes to the vacation schedule result in available time off slots, those slots shall be made available by seniority. In the event of available time off in the months of July and August, the available slots shall be made available by seniority to employees who do not have any vacation time off scheduled for those months. It is agreed that each department in a store shall have at least one (1) available vacation time slot for each week of the year (except for the black-out weeks in December as set out in Section 11.03 (C)). Vacation schedules, once approved by the Employer, shall not be changed except by mutual agreement between the employee and the Employer. Company seniority shall apply in preference for vacations within the store. In cases where transfers of personnel into a store make the foregoing inoperable, the fairest alternate procedure shall be adopted. Upon request, wherever possible, the Employer will schedule full-time employees the first day of the week after vacation as a day off. Furthermore, the full-time employee's starting time for the first shift upon returning from paid vacation shall be written on the schedule prior to leaving on vacation. Paid vacations for full-time employees and statutory holidays for all employees shall be considered as time worked for all purposes of the Collective Agreement.
Reinstatement of Vacation Days - Sick Leave In the event an employee is sick or injured prior to the commencement of his/her vacation, such employee shall be granted sick leave and the vacation period so displaced shall be added to the vacation period if requested by the employee and by mutual agreement, or shall be reinstated for use at a later date.
