UPS Vacation
10-28-2017, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by FTFF
And:
"Crewmembers with less than five (5) years of service shall receive 1.07 days of vacation for each pay period of continuous employment with the Company." There are 26 PP's per calendar year but the contract article, through some legal magic?, actually refers to bid periods which are defined as 2 PP's and occur 13 times per year.
Seven Bid Periods of 8 weeks each, except #7 is the 4 week that occurs in November.
Since this "cycle" in no way lines up with the calendar that normal humans use, the Nov bid period is occasionally 5 weeks so that the first bid period of the year is realigned to consist of Dec & Jan. Otherwise it would eventually be out of cycle, and peak would implode.
Last edited by CactusCrew; 10-28-2017 at 02:51 PM.
11-07-2017, 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by FTFF
Thx - demonstration of the effects of fatigue. No joke.
Completely understand !
Back to vacation ... I am just finishing up 7 weeks OFF, with 2 weeks of vacation. Its good when you get the time off. Cures the cumulative fatigue that these schedules can create.
After 1-2 years on property (depending on actual longevity) nearly anyone should be able to have a minimum 4 weeks off with their 2 weeks of vacation, if bid properly that could be 8 weeks for the more senior. I had to bid RSV, and will probably regret that next week, but with 2 weeks off before and one week off after the pay period of OCV, it was nice to forget about the place for awhile.
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