Originally Posted by
PilotWombat
So I just want to make sure I understand how IVD's work (gosh that's too close to IUD's...)
If I use two IVD's to drop, say, a 4 day, I get paid 7.5 hrs (7 hrs, depending on how many vacation days I have) and nothing else? I can't pull from any other vacation days to recoup the pay lost from that rotation?
Correct. It's really just an extra APD, and you are shifting vacation pay from a future date to the present. But still, it's a very powerful tool and was one of the better things to come out of our last contract.