Everett Firefighters Local No. 46 12/16/2022

21 for that month. A hire date after the 15th shall not apply until the following month. The first vacation shall be in an open vacation period or at the discretion of the Fire Department. H. At the end of an employee’s career, basic vacation will be deposited into their HRA/VEBA or MERP (compensable based on the employee’s then applicable hourly rate of pay) for all basic vacation hours accrued to a maximum of 384 hours, or such other maximum as appears in the Letter of Understanding concerning vacations appended hereto. I. Floating vacation shifts already accrued may be taken at the employee’s request, provided that the Department has the right to deny a request where taking the day would result in overtime. So that the employee may have a reasonable opportunity to plan for the usage of such floating vacation days, the Department will ensure that if the approval of the day off does not appear to cause overtime as of fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the day off, then the Department will assure the employee that he/she may take the day off. The only circumstances in which floating vacation shifts will be redeemable for cash (compensable based on the employee’s then applicable hourly rate of pay) at the end of an employee’s career shall be: A. Said floating vacation days were accrued prior to January 1, 1988, or B. The employee dies while in the employment of the City. J. Vacation slots for fire suppression and non-suppression personnel shall be set by the Fire Department in November of each year for the following year vacation selection. A vacation slot shall be defined for suppression personnel as a 24-hour shift. For non-suppression personnel, a vacation slot shall be defined as an eight (8) hour day, Monday through Friday. Beginning 2021 Vacation selection shall be altered as follows: The suppression vacation calendar shall be divided into 365 daily rows and six columns as depicted in Appendix B. The intersection of rows and columns shall be termed “slots” and represent a 24-hour shift. Fire administration reserves the right to block one continuous calendar week in January each year for departmental training purposes. Battalion chiefs, captains, drivers, and firefighters shall select vacation slots in two rounds based on seniority and have access to columns 1-4 and will fill selected slots in successive order until the rows slots are filled. Paramedics shall select vacation slots in two rounds based on seniority and have access to columns 5-4 and will fill selected slots in reverse order until the rows slots are filled. MSOs will select their vacation in column six only. In the event MSOs are staffed continuously, they will be merged with the paramedics and column 6 will be deleted. The number of available fourth column slots is determined by a formula based on the total number of 24-hour shifts of vacation allocated to suppression in November of the year prior to selection. The formula for calculating the number of available fourth column slots: