Article 13: Holidays

Section 13.1: Holidays

A. The following days will be observed as holidays:

B. Eligibility for floating holiday shall be on the same basis as management. For all non- probationary employees eligibility is as follows:

1. Employees hired prior to July 1 of any year become eligible to use the floating holiday before the end of the year.

2. Employees hired after July 1 will not earn or receive the floating holiday until the following calendar year.

3. Employees denied use of their floating holiday because of business needs will be given an extra day's pay the first pay period of the new year.

Section 13.2: Definitions

A. The holiday shall be the 24-hour period starting at the commencement of the Day shift.

B. The Company will pay to the employees covered by this contract and who are on the Company payroll at the time of occurrence of observance of said holidays, straight-time pay of eight (8) hours for the holidays not worked, provided that they meet the following requirements:

1. Probationary employees are not eligible to receive holiday pay until they have successfully completed their probationary period, at which time they shall receive pay for any holidays occurring during their probationary period to which they would have otherwise been eligible under this Article.

2. An eligible employee shall be entitled to holiday pay for any holiday occurring within a ten (10) working day period of his last date of employment. Eligible employees prevented from working within ten (10) days of the holiday due to a scheduled maintenance or construction shutdown shall receive holiday pay as if they had returned to work within ten (10) days. Discharge for just cause will be grounds for forfeiture of holiday pay. For the purpose of this provision, vacations are considered days of employment.

3. Employees on leave of absence longer than ten (10) working days shall not be entitled to holiday pay.

4. Employees off due to job injury or job illness or accident shall be eligible to receive holiday pay provided they have not been off more than ten (10) working days prior to the holiday.

5. If any employee who is scheduled to work on any such holiday, fails to report or perform his scheduled or assigned work, he shall become ineligible to receive pay for the unworked holiday unless he has failed to report because of emergencies beyond the control of the employee. The employee shall furnish satisfactory proof of such emergency.

C. Employees who work on a holiday shall receive eight (8) straight-time hours holiday pay and 1.65 time for all hours worked, with exception to item F of this section. All hours worked after eight (8) hours on a holiday will be paid for at two and 65/100ths (2.65) times the employee's straight hourly rate of pay.

D. An employee not working on a holiday shall be eligible to receive holiday pay of eight (8) hours at his regular hourly rate of pay provided that he has worked his last scheduled day prior to the holiday and his first scheduled day after the holiday, unless prevented from doing so because of emergencies beyond the control of the employee. The employee shall furnish satisfactory proof of such emergency.

E. When a holiday falls within an employee's vacation period, said employee shall receive holiday pay of eight (8) times his hourly rate used to compute his vacation pay in addition to his vacation pay or an additional day of paid vacation is so desired. (The extra day of paid vacation need not be adjacent to his vacation week.) If it does not conflict with his assigned duties such permission will not be unreasonably withheld.

F. For start-up purposes, incumbents on the upcoming shift may be called in early on holidays at straight time. Such call-in shall be within the shift commencement time set forth in Section 9.3(A), and shall be in advance of the employee's regular shift.