Vacation Purchase Plan and Buyback for Unused Vacation. (a) Vacation Purchase Plan Effective September 30, 2003 each eligible full and part-time employee may elect to purchase up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave each calendar year during their first five (5) years of permanent, probationary, or unclassified employment. Vacation purchased shall not exceed two hundred (200) hours. Eligibility will start from the employee’s first in-service hour with the County of Sonoma. Eligibility will end upon completion of 10,435.6 (10,435, effective with HRMS) in-service hours. Each eligible employee must submit a signed vacation purchase plan agreement to his/her Departmental Payroll Clerk. Upon receipt the employee’s future bi-weekly salary will be reduced by a minimum of two (2) hour increments until the purchase plan agreement has been fulfilled. Purchased vacation will be posted to the employee’s leave balance upon purchase and will be available to the employee the pay period following purchase. All purchases of vacation must be completed prior to the end of the calendar year in which the employee reaches the in-service hours of 10435.6 (10,435, effective with HRMS). Part-time employees will be eligible to purchase vacation time on a pro-rata basis. The additional vacation purchased is subject to the following guidelines: • Purchased vacation must be taken before accrued vacation in Section 19.3. • Purchased vacation is subject to the maximum accumulation limits and usage in Section 19.3. • Purchased vacation is subject to the same provisions in Section 19.5. • Purchased vacation leave is not eligible for buy back, Section 19.6 (b), and purchased vacation balances will not be included in eighty (80) hour remaining vacation balance requirement in this Section 19.6. • Purchased vacation hours when taken as time off will not be included in pay status hours for the purposes of shift pay and premium pay. • Vacation Purchased will be paid off at the employee’s base hourly rate at the time of termination.
Vacation Purchase Plan and Buyback for Unused Vacation
