THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRONIC, ELECTRICAL, SALARIED, MACHINE AND FURNITURE WORKERS

 

 

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ARTICLE XVIII - VACATIONS

89. July 1 shall be the terminal date of the year of employment establishing the right to vacations in any one year. 

 

89.1 The Company will on or before the 20th day of February of each year announce and publish the vacation shutdown perod(s) which may be a one week, two week or two one-week vacation periods.  The vacation period(s) will be scheduled between June 1 and the week prior to Labor Day.  If there is to be no vacation shutdown period, the Company will, on or before the fifteenth day of December of the year prior, announce that there will be no vacation shutdown. 

89.2 Vacations will be granted to all employees who prove eligible under the provisions of this Article. 

89.3 Employees who are eligible for three, four or five weeks of vacation under the provisions of this Article will take their third, fourth and fifth week of vacation at a time mutually agreeable to the employee and the Company between January 1 and December 31. 

89.3.1 Employees who are eligible to receive three, four, or five weeks vacation are not required to take vacation in order to be eligible for vacation pay. 

89.4 In the event there is not a vacation shut down period, employees who are eligible for vacation under the provisions of this Article will take their vacation at a time mutually agreeable to the employee and the Company between January 1 and December 31. 

89.5 Vacation paychecks shall be issued at least one week before the employee goes on vacation. 

89.6 When an employee who has qualified for vacation under the provisions of this Article and is called for summer training by the National Guard or Reserve Unit for one or two weeks of the vacation period, may elect to take his or her vacation at a time mutually agreeable to them and the Company. 

89.6.1 Such employees will be reimbursed the difference between military pay, excluding quarters and allowances, and 40 hours at their day work rate for each week so spent.

89.6.2 A veteran returning from Military Service shall be eligible for normal vacation benefits providing he or she returns before the vacation shutdown period. 

90. Those employees who have one year of seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January 1 will be entitled to forty (40) hour vacation with forty-four (44) hours pay. 

91. Those employees who have two to six years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January 1, will be entitled to eighty (80) hours vacation with ninety (90) hours pay. 

92. Those employees who have seven to nine years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January I, will be entitled to eighty (80) hours vacation with one hundred fourteen (114) hours pay. 

93. Those employees who have ten to fifteen years´ seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January I. will be entitled to one hundred twenty (120) hours vacation with one hundred thirty eight (138)hours pay. 

94. Those employees who have sixteen to nineteen years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January 1, will be entitled to one hundred twenty (120) hours vacation with one hundred sixty-two (162) hours pay. 

95. Those employees who have twenty to twenty four years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January 1, will he entitled to one hundred sixty (160) hours vacation with one hundred eighty-six (186) hours pay. 

96 Those employees who have twenty-five to twenty-nine years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January I, will be entitled to one hundred sixty (160) hours vacation with one hundred ninety-four (194) hours pay. 

97. Those employees who have thirty years seniority and who have worked 850 hours in the preceding year as of January 1, will be entitled to two hundred (200) hours vacation with two hundred twenty-four (224) hours pay. 

98. Each hour of vacation pay shall be computed on the basis of an employee´s straight time hourly earnings as of January 1 plus 75 percent of the February 19 earnings increase.