Common use of Scheduling Vacation Leave Clause in Contracts

Scheduling Vacation Leave. a. Employees shall be permitted to choose either an hourly, daily, weekly, split or entire vacation. However, employees must receive prior approval for use of vacation time. b. Employees shall have the right to determine their vacation leave times on the basis of seniority in accordance with schedules established by the bureau. Employees may exercise this seniority option only once during any calendar year. c. The deadline for management to respond to vacation requests will be five working days. If after the fifth day of the requesting employee’s regularly scheduled workday, an employee’s vacation request has not been responded to, the employee may advance their vacation request up to and including the Bureau Director or their designee. d. A bureau and the Union may mutually agree to implement an alternative method of approving vacations. The agreement can cover a work unit, a classification, or the entire bureau. Any such agreement will be made in writing and will be copied to the Union and the Bureau of Human Resources prior to implementation.

Scheduling Vacation Leave. a. Employees shall be permitted to choose either an hourly, daily, weekly, split or entire vacation. However, employees must receive prior approval for use of vacation time. b. . Employees shall have the right to determine their vacation leave times on the basis of seniority in accordance with schedules established by the bureau. Employees may exercise this seniority option only once during any calendar year. c. . The deadline for management to respond to vacation requests will be five working days. If after the fifth day of the requesting employee’s regularly scheduled workday, an employee’s vacation request has not been responded to, the employee may advance their vacation request up to and including the Bureau Director or their designee. d. . A bureau and the Union may mutually agree to implement an alternative method of approving vacations. The agreement can cover a work unit, a classification, or the entire bureau. Any such agreement will be made in writing and will be copied to the Union and the Bureau of Human Resources prior to implementation.