On your last day of rotation (day 8) they positive space you home. There is no vacation but Paid Time Off (PTO). You can use it for sick calls or a vacation. The previous PTO system had two big flaws. You could only use it to take one 8 day rotation off your schedule (even though you had enough PTO each year for 13 days off) and you have to be "home available" for one week. The good thing was one pilot explained to management how "home available" isn't time off and that every other employee gets to use all of their PTO, but the pilots can only use it in 8 day chunks leaving 5 unused days eery year. About a week later, they came up with new scheduling procedures and now we can use all of our PTO and even use it to take individual days off.
If you are already typed, they still have to send you for training, so you still have the training contract. But since you would just be getting recurrent, the training contract is much less. They charge you whatever CAE charges for the course. I think recurrent on the Excel was $8000 while an initial type is $15000.