VACATION LEAVE PLANNING CALENDAR. In order to avoid conflicts among employees in this appropriate unit attempting to make leave plans, and in order to avoid staffing shortages, an annual leave planning calendar shall be circulated by Natural Resource Officer seniority within the Law Enforcement Division and Parks Division in each district or region as determined appropriate by the Employer. Employees may list, in order of preference, individual days or blocks of days they wish to reserve for future use, but the total number of days reserved on the vacation planner by any individual employee shall not exceed twenty (20). For each calendar year, circulation shall take place during the previous months of September and October. The employer may reserve blocks of time for which leave requests will not be approved. Further, the employer may review and alter the calendar upon its completion (deemed to occur by October 31st of each year) for a period of time not to extend beyond November 15th to assure that geographical coverage and balance will be achieved within each region of the Law Enforcement Division, and to minimize impact on any one state park within the Parks Division. The employer shall advise employees by written notice mailed or hand delivered no later than November 18th if their reserved days or a portion have been denied. Requests to reserve dates shall not be umeasonably denied. Any reserved days not so denied will be considered reserved, but may still be canceled due to unusual, unforeseen, or emergency circumstances.
