I just used 2 IVD's to drop 2 RES days. Now, because of another vacation week, I'm working only 12 RES days in AUG and getting 84hrs pay.

God bless whoever thought up the IVD.

You also can’t IVD if you have already used your vacation for the vacation year.

You have to have future vacation days (in the vacation year) to use.

But I didn’t go anywhere fun on my previous vacation.

One of the few perks of a March or February vacation.

I bid a week for Super Bowl vacation and use IVD days from it.

Denny

If you use 2 IVDs from a February vacation to drop a trip (or two) in the preceding August... do you get paid 5 but still have 7 off for vacation in Feb? Or Does PBS build you a schedule with only 5 vacation days in it? I've never used them - trying to figure out the implications.

The future vacation period is reduced by the number of IVDs you take from it because you get paid the value of the vacation days used to drop those trips.


GP

You and me both!

PBS knows you only have 5 days left, so when the vacation comes around, 5 days of pay and 5 vacation days for bidding.

I’ve mentioned it before but don’t forget about using the VACB provision as well. It pays more than an IVD and leaves the amount of accrued vacation days unaffected.