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LOCAL 300 / MOLSON Vancouver 2006-2012 Contract
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ARTICLE 7
VACATIONS

REGULAR EMPLOYEES

1. All regular employees in service of the Company for one (1) year, or longer, shall be granted eighty (80) hours of vacation per year with full pay. Vacations to be taken at the time stipulated by mutual consent of department employees and the Company.

   All regular employees will be entitled to eighty (80) hours of vacation between the week in which June 15th falls and the week in which August 31st falls, inclusive. Employees to state their selected periods by April 1st.

   Vacation entitlement that has not been scheduled off by employees prior to September 15th each year is thereafter scheduled off for the employee by the Company in accordance with Company requirements.

   The Company will authorize an employee to take additional vacation time beyond the 80 hours specified during prime time if unused vacation weeks are available. The Company will accommodate the additional time providing the necessary operational skills needed during this time are met.

2. All employees shall, after completing three (3) years of service with the Company, receive one hundred and twenty (120) hours vacation per year with full pay.

3. All employees shall, after completing eight (8) years of service with the Company, receive one hundred and sixty (160) hours vacation per year with full pay.

4. All employees shall, after completing fifteen (15) years of service, with the Company, receive two hundred (200) hours vacation per year with full pay.

5. All employees shall, after completing twenty (20) years of service with the Company, receive two hundred and forty (240) hours vacation per year with full pay.

6. All employees shall, after completing twenty-five (25) years of service with the Company, receive two hundred and eighty (280) hours vacation per year with full pay.

7. To compute the years of service mentioned respectively in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) above, for the purpose of the qualifying date, such service shall be considered to have commenced on January 1 of the year in which the employee commenced employment.

8. In the case of employees receiving (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) above, the additional vacation must be taken outside the period detailed in Paragraph (a) above. The scheduling of these vacations will be by mutual agreement, the employee to state by January 31 the date he prefers to take such week or weeks.

9. Employees must take their vacations during the calendar year in which they become eligible for such. Employees holding relief positions in other departments will schedule their vacations in the department where relief positions are held.

10. In the event an employee becomes ill or injured in excess of three (3) days after having commenced his vacation, such that he qualifies for Weekly Indemnity coverage, he may request as outlined below to postpone his remaining days of vacation in order to enrol in the Weekly Indemnity Plan.

    1. The employee shall advise his supervisor of his illness or injury and make arrangements to have the weekly indemnity form completed.

    2. All approved requests will result in the employee's remaining days of vacation being cancelled, as prescribed above, the day after the request is received. The remaining vacation time shall be scheduled at a time mutually agreeable to the Company and the employee.

    3. Any vacation pay held by the employee for the cancelled period shall be returned to the Company and reissued for the rescheduled vacation period.

       1. Where the vacation has been scheduled as per the posted vacation schedule, employees shall receive their entitled pay one day prior to commencing such time off.

       2. Where an employee changes his vacation or is entitled to paid time off and advises his supervisor one week in advance, the employee shall receive his entitled pay one day prior to commencing such time off.

11. An employee in receipt of Weekly Indemnity, L.T.D. or W.C.B. payments who had "scheduled vacation prior to his disability" and is unable to take this scheduled vacation prior to the end of the calendar year, may reschedule up to eighty (80) hours of that portion of vacation previously scheduled at a mutually agreed time during the following calendar year. There shall be no carry-over of outstanding vacation beyond one year. Seniority does not apply for these carry over weeks.