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Content: Vacation
Agreement: Facility and Community Agreements 2001-2003
Date: February 2004
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Vacation
Employers cannot pay out vacation
Employers tell nurses that if they do not take their vacation, they will pay it out. But under UNA Collective Agreements Employers are NOT permitted to pay out unused vacation hours.
Vacation is earned one year to be taken in the next year (or in the months after it is earned). The vacation year for most Employers runs from April 1 to March 31 and Employees who do not use up their full vacation entitlement can request in writing that the unused time be carried over to the next year and their request cannot be unreasonably denied.
Employers are not permitted to make arbitrary rules like: no more than five days can be carried over; all unused vacation must be paid out, etc. That would be unreasonable denial.
Employees who have attempted to schedule vacation but have had their request(s) denied, cannot be reasonably denied a request to carry over that vacation time to the next year. Employers could be justified in denying a carry over if an Employee has NOT attempted to schedule or use their vacation hours. Even then, however, the Employer is not allowed to simply pay out the hours.
– Article17.03 (c) Facility and Community Agreements
Different Rules For Overtime
Employers normally MUST pay out banked overtime hours, unless it is mutually agreed to carry the hours over after March 31.
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