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A record of approved vacation requests will be available at all times to employees in the vacation
pool. Vacation requests will be approved only when you have, or have the ability to earn, sufficient
vacation leave to cover the time of the request. If you do not have enough time
(vacation/compensatory time) to cover the entire request at the time the schedule, which includes
the request, is posted, the entire vacation becomes null and void.
Cancelling Vacations:
(For Fergus Falls, Moose Lake, Walker and Willmar Regions only)
Article 8 of the Master Agreement is changed as follows:
If you fill a vacancy in a program when it is started, your previously approved
vacation/compensatory time may be canceled if necessary. You may resubmit the canceled
vacation/compensatory time request in the new program.
(For All Employees)
The Appointing Authority and the local union agree to meet and confer to discuss vacation issues.
Leaves of Absence
Unpaid Leave of Absence: (For St. Peter Region only)
Article 10, Section 4 of the Master Agreement is supplemented as follows:
If you are a permanent employee who doesn’t pass a background check or has practice
restrictions placed on your license by an outside agency, Management will make every reasonable
effort to accommodate the restriction. If the restriction cannot be accommodated, you will be
placed on an unpaid personal leave of absence. The accommodation or leave of absence will
continue for the duration of the appeal process.
Investigatory Leave: (For St. Peter Region only)
Article 10, Section 4.K of the Master Agreement is supplemented as follows:
If you are placed on investigatory leave, you will be told the nature of the investigation. You and
the Local Union will receive written confirmation as soon as practicable.
Definition: (For the Moose Lake Region only)
Vacancies, Filling of Positions
Article 12, Section 1(A) of the Master Agreement is changed as follows:
A vacancy is an opening in the classified service for a non-temporary (more than six (6) months)
position, the assemblage of a seasonal work crew if defined as such in Supplemental Agreements,
or a shift opening in the seniority unit which Management decides to fill. A vacancy may be
created by death, resignation, dismissal, transfer out of the seniority unit, permanent reassignment
to a new work location forty (40) miles or more distant, retirement, leave of absence expected to be
longer than six (6) months, permanent disability, promotions, demotions, successful bid or the
creation of a new shift or seasonal work crew.
Reassignment:
Article 12, Section 4. of the Master Agreement is changed as follows:
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