7.01      Vacation Entitlement
All employees in the service of the Company for one year or longer shall be granted two weeks vacation per year with full pay.

7.02      Vacation Schedule
Present employees shall continue to accrue vacations under the current system (ten days after one year, fifteen days after two years and one additional day for each year in excess of three to a maximum of thirty-five days. Employees receiving in excess of thirty-five days per year are frozen at that level). Employees hired after May 31, 1998 shall accrue holiday entitlement in accordance with the following formula: two weeks after one year, three weeks after four years, four weeks after nine years, five weeks after sixteen years, six weeks after twenty-one years, seven weeks after twenty-six years.

7.03      Qualifying Time

1. For this purpose, service shall mean an employee must have worked 1,056 hours in each twelve-month anniversary period. Prior to achieving the 1,056 hour plateau in each twelve month period, employees shall receive vacation pay in accordance with the following formula:

   No. of hours Worked  x  Basic Entitlement  =  Vacation Pay
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       1,056 hours
   

   Statutory Holidays and Vacations for which the employee is paid shall be considered as days worked.
   
   
2. Effective date of ratification, employees who have been disabled in excess of fifty-two weeks such that they are unable to take their holidays by December 31, shall have their benefit payments supplemented to full pay for each day of vacation entitlement unused.
   
   
3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, employees entitlement to vacation pay shall cease after one hundred four weeks of disability until or unless the employee recovers and returns to work or retires. Employees who recover and return to work shall have their vacation entitlement pro-rated in the year that they return.

7.04      Vacation Period
The vacation period shall be between January 1st and December 31st at times stipulated by mutual consent of the department head and the employee. Employees shall be granted a minimum of two weeks vacation each year during the period commencing with the week in which June 15th falls and ending with the week in which August 31st falls (“Prime Time”). Earned vacation in excess of two weeks must be taken outside of Prime Time unless it is otherwise mutually agreed and such agreement does not deny another employee the right to take two weeks during Prime Time.

There are four sign-up periods for vacation. During each vacation sign-up period one-week blocks will be given precedence over periods of time that are less than a week.

1. The Company shall post a Vacation Planner for each Department by October 1 listing available vacation dates in the following calendar year. By seniority, employees in each department will be entitled to select up to 2 weeks of non-Prime Time vacation until November 15 from the available vacation dates.
   
   
2. Then on January 15, by seniority, employees in each department will select up to 2 weeks of vacation, including Prime Time periods, by February 14.
   
   
3. Then on February 15, by seniority, employees in each department will select up to 1 week of available vacation, including Prime Time periods, by March 14.
   
   
4. Finally on March 15, employees will be able to sign-up for the balance of their vacation entitlement by March 31.