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4. New hires shall earn vacation at a rate of 14 hours per month of service and shall not be <br /> eligible to take vacation until they have completed their probation and until the next <br /> calendar year after the calendar year in which they were hired. For their first vacation, <br /> they will be given only those hours earned during their first calendar year of employment. <br /> The accruing period shall be January 1 through December 15 and a hire date on or <br /> before the 15th of any month will accrue for that month. A hire date after the 15th shall <br /> not apply until the following month. The first vacation shall be in an open vacation period <br /> or at the discretion of the Fire Department. <br /> 5. At the end of an employee's career, basic vacation will be redeemable for cash <br /> (compensable based on the employee's then applicable hourly rate of pay) for all basic <br /> vacation hours accrued to a maximum of 384 hours, or such other maximum as appears <br /> in the Letter of Understanding concerning vacations appended hereto. <br /> 6. Floating vacation shifts already accrued may be taken at the employee's request, <br /> provided that the Department has the right to deny a request where taking the day would <br /> result in overtime. So that the employee may have a reasonable opportunity to plan for <br /> the usage of such floating vacation days, the Department will ensure that if the approval <br /> of the day off does not appear to cause overtime as of fourteen (14) days prior to the <br /> date of the day off, then the Department will assure the employee that he/she may take <br /> the day off. The only circumstances in which floating vacation shifts will be redeemable <br /> for cash (compensable based on the employee's then applicable hourly rate of pay) at <br /> the end of an employee's career shall be: <br /> A. Said floating vacation days were accrued prior to January 1, 1988, or <br /> B. The employee dies while in the employment of the City. <br /> 7. Vacation slots for fire suppression and non-suppression personnel shall be set by the <br /> Fire Department in November of each year for the following year vacation selection. <br /> A vacation slot shall be defined for suppression personnel as seven to eight 24 hour <br /> shifts. For non-suppression personnel, a vacation slot shall be defined as an eight (8) <br /> hour day, five (5) working days, Monday through Friday. Each vacation slot shall allow <br /> up to three (3) personnel per slot. <br /> 8. When an individual with carried-over vacation opts to take such vacation, it shall be <br /> added subsequent or prior to his/her regular vacation selection or it may be taken in any <br /> open vacation slot after the second round of selections. This option (4th person per slot) <br /> shall be limited to one (1) full year's vacation allotment per calendar year or such lesser <br /> amount as may have been earned in one (1) calendar year. <br /> 21 <br />