SANTA ANA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (7)

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first and second completed year of service , accrued at the rate of 6 2/3 hours for each completed month of service. Thereafter, all such employees shall also be granted the regular vacation at the rate of 15 working days for each completed year of service, accrued at the rate of 10 working hours for each completed month of service. B. An employee who has completed less than on year' s ser- vice during the calendar year shall receive a proportionate fraction in accordance with the amount of service to his credit during the year; provided, however, no employee shall be entitled to, or receive payment for any vacation until he has completed six (6 ) months of continuous service. C. On or after the first (1st) day of the month following completion of six ( 6 ) months of continuous full-time service, an employee may be allowed to take all or a proportionate fraction of his or her earned vacation, subject to scheduling approval of the employee' s supervisor. D. Absence on sick leave for a period of excess of fifteen ( 15) consecutive calendar days shall not be considered as service for vacation accrual purposes. E. Vacation time off may be taken in increments as small as one ( 1) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple of one ( 1) . F. Computation of Regular Vacation: (1 ) In computing regular vacation, each municipal holiday that occurs during the vacation, and that falls on a day which the employee would have worked had he/she not been on vacation, shall be deducted from the computation so that one additional day of regular vacation shall be allowed to the em- ployee unless departmental practice provides some other manner of compensating for municipal holidays. Should an employee be con- fined to a hospital for sickness or injury while on authorized vacation, each full day of such confinement, when confirmed by a physician' s statement and approval of the Chief of Police, may be deducted from the computation of vacation expended and charged against the employee' s accumulated sick leave. (2) No employee may carry over from one calendar year to the next, more than the equivalent of two ( 2 ) regular vacation periods from the previous two (2) years, and vacation not taken beyond that amount is forfeited. A regular vacation period is defined as the maximum amount of vacation earned in a calendar year as provided in sub-section A, supra. ( 3) No employee shall have a right to accumulate or split his/her vacation, but the same may be allowed or required by the Chief of Police. The time at which an employee shall take his/ her vacation shall be determined by the Chief of Police , with due -20-