September 20, 2011
Please let this serve as a reminder that, pursuant to Article 9.C.5, employees having VAC-DAT remaining unused on October 1st of each year must declare one of the following options:
- Elect to be paid for remaining VAC-DAT. Pay-out will be made on the first paycheck following November 1st of the current year, or
- Use remaining VAC-DAT by December 31st. If this option is selected, but the VAC-DAT is not used by December 31st, the employee must choose to either carry the VAC-DAT into the following year as set forth in paragraph C(5)(c) below, or be paid on the second paycheck in January of the following year for all remaining VAC-DAT hours. This election must be made by midnight December 31st.
- Elect to use remaining VAC-DAT in the following year as VAC-DAT. The maximum carry-over shall be forty (40) hours.
- Elect to use remaining VAC-DAT in the following year as a week of regular vacation. The minimum carry over shall be one (1) day less than the employee’s regular work week. The maximum carry-over shall be forty (40) hours. An employee who carries over less than a full week of VAC-DAT must complete the additional vacation week using the following year’s VAC-DAT, by day/shift trade, by using unpaid leave, or by other means mutually acceptable to the employee and the Company.
- Elect to transfer any or all unused VAC-DAT hours into the employee’s sick bank so long as such a transfer will not exceed the maximum allowable accrued sick bank hours as defined in Article 11. Employees who elect to transfer only a portion of their remaining VAC-DAT hours into their sick bank must also elect another option for all remaining hours.
Employees who fail to declare one of the above options by October 15 will be treated as having elected option (b) above.
In Solidarity,
Ralph Salzano
IBT – Local 210