Article 4: Vacations & Holidays
4.1
Regular Full-time Employees in the employ of the Company shall be entitled to a vacation period with full straight time pay as indicated herein:
Duration of Service
(as of May 1st) |
Vacation Period |
From 0 to 1 year |
1 workday per month |
From 1 year to 4-1/2years |
2 work weeks or 10 workdays |
From 4-1/2 to 15 years |
3 work weeks or 15 workdays |
Over 15 years |
4 work weeks or 20 workdays |
If McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company should grant vacation to non-unit Employees in excess of that contained in Article 4.1, then unit Employees will receive the same benefit effective May 1st of the subsequent year.
4.1.1
Part-time and Temporary Employees shall be entitled to a vacation period which shall accrue at the rate of (1) day of vacation with eight (8) hours straight time pay for each one hundred and thirty-nine (139) hours worked.
4.2
Vacations shall be granted between May 1st and April 30th at any time that is mutually agreeable between the Company and the Employee.
A sign-up sheet indicating the available vacation periods will be posted from the first week in January through the last week in February for Employees to express their preference for vacation time. In the Operations department, the Company will provide three (3) vacation slots each week, except for the weeks containing Thanksgiving and Christmas, during which four (4) vacation slots will be provided.
Employees should project all vacation days and days earned in lieu of holidays (Article 4.3.1).
4.2.1
Vacation periods shall be scheduled to immediately begin and end following the Employee’s regular scheduled days off. In the event an Employee’s vacation cannot be made to coincide with his days off, he shall be compensated for those days lost, at two (2) times his regular hourly rate of pay, for all days so lost.
The above shall not apply when vacation of less than five (5) working days is taken.
This section may be modified by mutual consent.
4.2.2
At his written request, three (3) weeks in advance, each Employee shall be tendered immediately prior to his vacation, full pay for the period of his vacation taken at that time.
4.2.3
An Employee may split vacation time with seniority of choice applying to only one of the periods chosen. Other requests for vacation time shall be granted on a first come-first served basis. An Employee may take vacation time during Christmas week only once every three years.
4.2.4
Regular full-time and part-time Employees may carry over up to a maximum of twice their current yearly allotment of vacation time without causing accrual of vacation for the following year to cease. If more than twice the previous year’s allotment is carried over, vacation accrual will cease until enough vacation has been taken to reduce the carried over vacation to less than twice the previous year’s allotment.
4.2.5
Any Employee leaving the employ of the Company shall receive payment for vacation earned but not used, subject to the maximum as described in Section 4.2.4.
4.3
Holidays are defined as New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
4.3.1
Regular full-time Employees who perform work on New Year’s Day,
Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Independence Day or Labor Day may choose to receive either eight (8) hours additional straight-time pay or a compensating day.
4.3.2
Regular Full-time Employees who perform work on Thanksgiving and/or Christmas may choose to receive compensation at either of the following rates:
Three (3) times their applicable rate of pay for the first eight (8) hours, or two (2) times the applicable rate of pay plus a compensating day.
The following four (4) hours at three and one-half (3-1/2) times the applicable rate of pay.
After the twelfth (12th) hour the Employee shall be paid four (4) times the applicable rate of pay, to the end of the shift.
4.3.3
Part-time and Temporary Employees who perform work on New Years Day, Easter Sunday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day shall receive:
Two (2) times the applicable rate of pay for the first eight (8) hours,
The following four (4) hours at three (3) times the applicable rate of pay.
After the twelfth (12th) hour the Employee shall be paid four (4) times the applicable rate of pay, to the end of the shift.
4.3.4
Only the smallest possible crew, consistent with the program requirements of the station, shall be assigned to work Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
4.3.5
Regular full-time NABET-CWA Employees shall receive floating holidays as provided to other McGraw-Hill non-unit employees. Regular part-time NABET-CWA Employees shall receive a pro-rata portion of the floating holidays granted to full-time Employees, based on their regular work schedule (as defined in section 2.7B). If McGraw-Hill should grant non-unit Employees additional holidays, closing days or other workdays off with pay which is not presently granted to non-unit Employees, Regular full-time unit Employees will receive a comp day if worked and eight (8) hours pay if not worked. Regular part-time unit Employees will be paid if worked as described in Section 4.3.3.
4.3.6
A regular full-time Employee with one or more years of service leaving the employ of the Company shall receive eight (8) hours pay at straight time for each holiday listed in Article 4.3 that has passed since May 1, but has not yet been paid.
A regular full-time Employee with less than one year of service leaving the employ of the Company shall receive eight (8) hours pay at a straight time for each holiday listed in Article 4.3 that has passed since their date of hire, but has not yet been paid.
4.4
When a holiday occurs during a Regular full-time Employee’s vacation or on their regularly scheduled day off, they may choose to receive additional straight-time pay or one (1) compensating day in lieu of each of these named holidays.
4.5
All compensating days will be taken on days mutually agreed upon between the Employee and the Company.
