Originally Posted by
YellowBus
So you should be able to find that in our contract, but it's not a simple answer same as you. Your vacation week credits are set. We have the ability to designate how much time we want to be applied to our week of vacation. Anywhere from 12 hours to 36 hours. So we basically have 2 parts to our vacation. # of weeks we can bid. And then vacation credit hours that we then apply to those weeks of vacation. The longer you are here, the more credit you have available to apply.
Thanks guys. Looks like it averages about 30 hours per vacation week.
Like that you can designate how much to allocate to each week.
I think the takeaway is some years of longevity JB-NK have the same number of weeks. In those years JB credits more vacation. In the years where NK gets more weeks, they have the advantage in some ways.
JB gets a lot of hours for each week of vacation. The NK system of accruing a variable rate of hour per week based on longevity might be a way to get more weeks of vacation sooner while still keeping the high weekly credit. I really like the high credit per week because you get more of the month off when you have a vacation. But I also want more weeks, sooner in longevity.
Haven't looked at how allocation of weeks available for bidding compares, I do think JB distributes weeks throughout the year well. And certainly JB has an advantage in PTO/sick. And yet JB still doesn't get enough. Room for improvement there.
Shifting gears...
What are NK's requirement for TPS reports?