7.01       All employee's in service of the Company for one [1] year, or longer, shall be granted two weeks vacation per year with full pay or 4%, whichever is greater. Vacations are to be taken at the time stipulated by mutual consent of employee's and the Company. All employees will be entitled to two [2] weeks of vacation between the week in which June 15 falls and the week in which August 31 falls, inclusive. Employees are to state their selected periods by April 1. Vacation during this prime time period may exceed two [2] weeks provided space is available and it is operationally feasible.

Vacations will be scheduled in order of seniority on the employee's posted booking date. If an employee does not submit their vacation request by their posted booking date their vacation request will then be honoured on a first-come first-served basis.

7.02       All employee's shall, after completing three [3] years of service with the Company, receive three [3] weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.03       All employee's shall, after completing eight [8] years of service with the Company, receive four [4] weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.04       All employee's shall, after completing fifteen [15] years of service with the Company, receive five [5] weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.05       All employee's shall, after completing twenty [20] years of service with the Company, receive six [6] weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.06       All employee's shall, after completing twenty-five [25] years of service with the Company, receive seven [7] weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.07       To compute the three [3], eight [8], fifteen [15], twenty [20], and twenty-five [25] years of service mentioned respectively in paragraphs 7.02 - 7.06 above, for the purpose of qualifying date for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh weeks of vacation, such service shall be considered to have commenced on January 1 of the year in which the employee commenced employment.

7.08       In the case of employee's receiving three [3], four [4], five [5], six [6] or seven [7] weeks vacation, one [1] week, two [2] weeks, three [3] weeks, four [4] weeks, or five [5] weeks, whichever is applicable must be taken outside the period detailed in Article 7.01. The employee must record by January 31 the dates on which he wishes to take these service holidays. The Company may request that service holidays be arranged so that the efficient operation of the Company is not affected, e.g. availability of tradesmen, etc.

7.09       Employee's must take their vacations during the calendar year in which they become eligible for such.

When an employee has scheduled his vacation in accordance with 7.08 above but is unable to take it before the end of the calendar year due to his being disabled on WCB or WI, the Company will permit a carry over of up to two [2] weeks of vacation, which must be taken by March 31st of the following year. Failing this, the WCB or WI will be topped up to 100% of wages for the days of outstanding vacation.

The vacation entitlement will be discharged based on one [1] day of vacation for one [1] day of top up. In no event shall the employee be entitled to receive more in combined compensation and vacation wages than he would have received were he not in receipt of such disability payments.

7.10       The Company will post the vacation schedules in a place where employee's can have access to it.

7.11       In the event an employee becomes ill or injured in excess of three [3] days after having commenced his vacation, such that he qualified for Weekly Indemnity coverage, he may request as outlined below to postpone his remaining days of vacation in order to enroll 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 re-issued for the re-scheduled vacation period.
   
   

7.12       Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7.01 to 7.09, an employee must have actually worked ninety [90] days including all days on Workers Compensation in the previous vacation year to be entitled to his full vacation pay. Employees who have worked less than ninety [90] days including all days on Workers Compensation shall receive the vacation pay to which they otherwise be entitled under Article 7 pro-rated to reflect the ratio of the days actually worked to total working days (i.e. regular entitlement x days worked divided by 249). Days on Workers Compensation is to be counted as days worked strictly for the purposes of this Article.