VACATION Seniority Selection Period

With respect to vacation, vacation periods may be taken throughout  the year as long as the needs of the Employer to continue operating effectively are met. There shall be two (2) seniority selection periods in each calendar year, as follows:

• The period of August 15 through and including September 15 shall be the seniority selection period for vacations selected to begin between December 1 of that year and May 31 of the following year.

• Requests for vacations in any given period will not be accepted until the appropriate seniority selection period opens.

• Vacations selected during the semonty periods will be acted upon (granted or disapproved) by October 1 for the August 15 to September 15 period.

• When vacation requests properly filed within the seniority selection period conflict so as to make it impossible for the Employer to grant all of the requests, preference shall be given to senior Employees in accordance with the provisions of Section 19.1 of the CBA with WGBH.

• A calendar of the applicable vacation weeks (December  1 to May 31) will be posted during the seniority  selection  periods.  Employees  will  enter  their names in their preferred weeks. Before the close of the seniority selection period  each  Employee will have the option, in order of seniority, to change their selection.