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§10.3 Additional Vacation Credit

(a) The State agrees to grant employees having 20 or more years of

continuous State service and who are entitled to earn and accumulate
vacation credits, additional vacation credits as follows:

Completed Years of Additional

Continuous Service Vacation Credit
20 to 24 1 day

25 to 29 2 days
30 to 34 3 days

35 or more 4 days

(b) An eligible employee shall receive additional vacation credit on the
date on which the employee would normally be credited with additional

vacation in accordance with the above schedule and shall thereafter be
eligible for additional vacation credit upon the completion of each

additional 12 months of continuous State service. Continuous State service
for the purposes of this section shall mean uninterrupted State service, in

pay status, as an employee. A leave of absence without pay, or a resignation
followed by reinstatement or reemployment in State service within one

year following such resignation, shall not constitute an interruption of
continuous State service for the purpose of this section; provided, however,

that leave without pay for more than six months or a period of more than
six months between resignation and reinstatement or reappointment, during

which the employee is not in State service, shall not be counted in

determining eligibility for additional vacation credits under this section.
(c) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to provide for the
granting of additional vacation retroactively for periods of service prior to

the effective date of this Agreement.

§10.4 Vacation Scheduling
(a) Assignment of vacation time off shall be made at the times desired by

an employee to the extent practicable in light of the needs of the department
or institution involved to provide the service it is charged to provide. In the

event that more employees request the same vacation time off than can be
reasonably spared, for operating reasons, vacation time off will be granted

to such employees who can reasonably be spared, in order of seniority as

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