Common use of Not a Guarantee Clause in Contracts

Not a Guarantee. It is understood that the bulletining, scheduling, assignment and granting of vacations pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1(a) and 1(b) of Article II of this Agreement establishes no guarantee that any employee shall be released for any particular vacation period. I t is recognized that the exigencies of the service create practical difficulties in providing expanded vacations to all employees. The right of the company to withhold employees from scheduled or bulletined vacation periods is conceded and, where that is done, the employee will be allowed pay in lieu thereof, as provided in Section I of National Vacation Agreement effective July 1, 1949, as amended by Article 5 of the National Agreement dated December 16, 1953 and Articles IV (ORC&B) and VI (BRT) of the National Agreements dated November 20, 1964.