8.01       As of January 1st, regular benefit status employee's with three [3] or more years of seniority, shall be entitled to a vacation bonus, to be taken as time off in accordance with the following:

• Employee's with three [3] weeks vacation entitlement will receive three [3] days bonus.
• Employee's with four [4] weeks vacation entitlement will receive four [4] days bonus, and so on in that manner.

8.02       The aforementioned bonus time shall be scheduled to alleviate employee's being laid off on G.W.P. Employees shall be permitted to take bonus time in order of seniority however; the number of employee's being granted this time off shall be limited. Branch management shall set that limit locally and discuss the limit with the local Union Committee. Such discussions shall be held in the month of December of each year (and at such other times as the parties may agree). Allowing employee's to take bonus days consecutively shall only be allowed provided it is operationally feasible.

Notwithstanding this scheduling process, it is understood that employee's may be required to utilize their vacation bonus time. This requirement will be kept to a minimum where possible.

The Company and the Union will monitor this process and mutually adjust or amend it as required.

8.03       Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 8.01, an employee must have actually worked seventy two (72) days including all days on Workers Compensation in the previous calendar year to be entitled to his full vacation bonus. Employees who have worked less than seventy two (72) days including all days on Workers Compensation shall receive the vacation bonus to which they otherwise would be entitled under Article 8 pro-rated to reflect the ratio of the days actually worked to total working days (i.e. regular entitlement X days worked divided by 197). Days on Workers Compensation is to be counted as days worked strictly for the purposes of this Article.