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Vacation Time for Full Time Salary AssociatesSalary associates receive vacation pay when they go on vacation as oppose to on eachpay check. Please refer to the employment contract for details on the # of vacation daysto be taken.GoodLife’s alternative vacation entitlement year is from January 1st to December 31st.Vacation time is earned in one year and taken in the next year based on the vacation year.A salary associate in Ontario with vacation entitlement of 2 week’s who joins on July 1st2008, earns 4.98 days in 2008 to take in 2009 and in 2009 earns 10 days to take in 2010.The below stub period charts must be used to calculate the vacation time earned betweenthe start date and December 31st of that same year.Stub Period ChartNew Brunswick and Quebec10 days Vacation 15 days Vacation 10 days Vacation 15 days VacationMonths Days Months Days Months Days Months Daysaccumulatedaccumulatedaccumulatedaccumulated1 .83 1 1.251 1 1 1.252 1.66 2 2.502 2 2 2.503 2.49 3 3.753 3 3 3.754 3.32 4 5.004 4 4 5.005 4.15 5 6.255 5 5 6.256 4.98 6 7.506 6 6 7.507 5.81 7 8.757 7 7 8.758 6.64 8 10.008 8 8 10.009 7.47 9 11.259 9 9 11.2510 8.30 10 12.5010 10 10 12.5011 9.13 11 13.7511 10 11 13.7512 9.96 12 15.0012 10 12 15.00**For further information please see the ‘Vacation Policy’ in the Associate Policy andProcedure Handbook on Public Folders and SharePoint._______________________________________________________________________________Vacation Time for Full and Part Time Hourly AssociatesFull and part time hourly associates must also take vacation time.As per the Employments Standards Act, associates must take 2 calendar weeks ofvacation per year. This means that even though an hourly associate may only regularlywork 2 shifts per week, they must have 2 calendar weeks free from working any shiftsin a given year from January to December 31 st .** for club associates the calendar week is from Thursday to Wednesday.When associates first begin working for GoodLife, they don’t have to take vacation timefrom their start date to December 31 st that year.ExampleSally is a part time hourly Customer Service Representative that works every Monday andTuesday each week and she started with GoodLife on July 1 st 2008. Between July 1 st andDecember 31 st 2008 Sally doesn’t have to take any vacation time.From January 2009 to December 31 st 2009 Sally has to have 2 calendar weeks whereshe isn’t scheduled to work any shifts. If Sally requests Monday April 6 th 2009 off withher Manager to go to Canada’s Wonderland, her manager can give her that day off andnot schedule her for any other shifts during that calendar week and this will count asher 1 calendar week of vacation. Between then and December 31 st 2009 she will have totake one more calendar week off of work with no scheduled shifts.Confidential and Proprietary Information of Goodlife Fitness Clubs | V14 July 2009 43