Originally Posted by
Planepirate
If your vacation days are worth 5 hours, you are basically starting the month with 35 hours and a block of 9 days off where trips can’t be placed. Being able to stretch that 9 days to two weeks or more will depend on your seniority.
I am not sure of the language yet or how it works but if it is true that we have a buffer of 2 days off on one side or the other really means nothing to me. Those 2 days off would be "your" days off anyway. You still need 40 hours to build that line assuming you need 75 like you currently do. If you wanted those two days off on either side of vacation you could just use your seniority to request that. So I don't see how it is a gain because not all will want that. They might want to spread the days off elsewhere.
I currently average about 45 hours of dropped credit with one week of vacation with our current system so PBS vacation credit would end up with a net loss of 10 hours per week of vacation. Worse.