Item - P10

AGREEMENT

between
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COHTAHY-EAS7ERN DISTRICT

and

ORDER OF RAILWAY CCHDUCTORS AND 3RAKET-2I!
*• Advancing and Deferring Vacation Periods

After official vacation schedules have been prepared
in accordance with agreement dated December 30, 1964, conductors
qualified to receive one, two, three or four weeks vacation under the
agreement effective January 1, 19^5 who are working at points where
extra boards are maintained ~*ay advance or defer vacation periods
subject to the following:

1. A conductor may advance his vacation period to commence
on a day specified in Paragraphs 6 and 9 of the agreement dated
December 3C, 1964.

2. Vacation periods advanced or deferred under Paragraph
1 hereof sust be for not less than the following number of consecutive
days:

One week - seven (7) days

Two weeks - fourteen (14) days

Three weeks - twenty-one (21) days

Four weeks - twenty-eight (28) days

3. A conductor who elects to advance or defer his vacation
period or a portion thereof must submit written application to the crew
dispatcher or other designated representative of the Company and re-
ceive approval from such representative to advance or defer his va-
cation period.

4. When the complete vacation period for any conductor
has been advanced as herein provided, the vacation period of another
conductor ~ay be deferred to the period in which the advanced con-
ductor was scheduled to take his vacation, provided notification of
such deferr.ent is submitted by the conductor to the crew dispatcher
or other designated representative of the Cone-any at least five days
in advance of the date such enploye is scheduled for his vacation on
the official vacation schedule. Only one such defercer.t will be
granted when a vacation period is advanced.

5. Vacation periods win not be deferred where th.3 vacation
cannot be completed aurin~ the calendar year.

(P10-1)

3« Splitting Vacations

1. Conductors who are qualified for a vacation
three or four weeks with pa7 under the provisions of the Vac
Agreement of April 29, 1949*. as amended by the Vacation Acr
of Deceaber 16, 1953 snd i'over.ber 2C, 1964, will, upon writt
quest to the officer in charge, and subject to his approval
availability of extra employes to provide relief, be permtt
take their vacations in installments as follows:

(a) Conductors who are qualified for a two weeks1
vacation may take their vacation in two in-
stallments of one week each.

("b} Conductors who are qualified for a three weeks'
vacation nay take their vacation in two install-
ments of one week and two weeks or vice versa, or
in three installments of one week eacn.

(e) Conductors who are qualified for a four week va-
cation nay take their vacation in four install-
ments of cr.e week each or combinations of one
week, two v/eeks an2/or three week installments not
to exceed a total cf four weeks vacation, and pro-
vided extra conductors are available for relief.

(d) Vacations taken in installments in accordance with
subsections (a), (b) or (e) of this Section 3 cust
be taken in advance cf the individual er.clcye's
scheduled vacation period as established by the pro-
visions of the Decer.ber 30, 19--X a^reer.ent.

{e} Vacation periods nay not be deferred, except as
provided in Section *.

Then a portion of the employe's vacation has been
taken in installments under"Paragraphs {a}, (b),
(e) and (d) of this section and when portions of an
employe's vacation have been advanced in accordance
with Section A of this agreement, all remaining
portions of the employe's vacation must be commenced
on the first date set in the original vacation
schedule, except as provided in subsection 2(a) of
this section.

(P10-2)

2. (a) Er-ployes who, because of preference seniority, have
been scheduled and assigned a vacation period on the official vacation
schedule for the last four weeks in December and wno advance crly a
portion of their vacation ("one, two or three weeks as the case may
be) under the terras of Sections A and 3 of this agreement, will com-
mence and complete the remaining cortion of their scheduled vacation
in the month of December. The final or last two or three weeks of
December, as nay be the case, will be reserved to such seniority em-
ployes. This exception for taking the regaining portion of a scheduled
vacation shall not apply to any other er.plcyes nor to any other va-
cation period in tha calendar year.

(b) The Company shall assur.e no additional expense in
granting vacations in installments under this Agreement.

(e) Subject to the previsions of subsections l(a) and 2 (b)
of Section 3 of this agreement, employes working at outside pcir.ts
where extra boards are'r.ot maintained shall be privileged to t=xe
their vacations in installments; provided, however, that where cead-
heading is involved the following regulations shall apply:

(1) Deadhead payments under this split vacation arrange-
ment shall be limited to one round trip and such payments
shall be allocated as.follows:

(a) Except as provided in subsection 2 of this
section (e), the first relief employe to deadhead to
the outside point to protect the first installment
of a vacation will be allowed deadhead pay to the
outside point. Deadhead trips of other er.plcyes to
an outside point to protect either the second, third
or fourth installment of a vacation shall not be paid
for.

(b) The last relief employe to return from an out-
side point after the last installment of a vacation has
been taken will be allowed deacihead pay from the out-
side point to the point where the extra list is maintained.

(e) Intervening deadhead trips to and from outside
points which occur between the first and last install-
ment under this split vacation arrangement shall not
be paid for.

(2} Deadhead movements under this vacation agreement shall
not be paid for if they are otherwise not payable, such as
deadhead movements occasioned by and coupled to mileage
regulations.

(P10-3)

(a) Employes who have riade written application to take
their vacations in installments and have received permission
to do so, will submit time return to the timekeeper for
payment of that portion of their vacation allowance in pro-
portion to the amount of the vacation taken.

(b) Employes at outside points who elect to take their
vacations in installments shall advise crew dispatchers,
timekeepers and others of the precise conditions for which
such vacations are requested. Time allowances for dead-
head trips will not be made until all supporting data has
been furnished and checked.

(e) An employe who has teen absent fron service account
sickness or for personal reasons not less than sever. (7),
fourteen (14), twenty-one (21), and/or twenty-eight (2S)
days and who desires to allocate such absences against any
vacation periods due must, at the time he returns to ser-
vice, notify the crew dispatcher or other designated re-
presentative of the Carrier that such absences from ser-
vice are to be charged against vacation periods as may be
due.

derstooa that the schedule of vacations on the

D. Effective Date

This agreement shall be effective January 1, 1966, and
thereafter until terminated, subject to the condition that it shall
terminate thirty 130} days after written notice is served by either
party upon the other, and supersedes and cancels agreement dated De-
cember 31» 196k, ''Two, Three and Four *"eek Vacations-Divided Into Two
Periods'7; Agreement dated November 1, 1957, and any other agreement
or provision thereof that is in conflict herewith.

Dated at Croaha, Nebraska this ;Cth day of December, 1965.

order cf railway conductors t braxe^n: union pacific railroad co;;?Af:Y:

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General Chairman // ~ *sst. to Vice Pr

/ Labor Relations