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Calculating your vacation accrual when you have an Occupational Injury/Illness depends on your circumstances and Leave status. The process of determining your vacation accrual is done through an evaluation of two components. For full vacation accrual you must fly 120 hours or more each quarter of the vacation accrual year. Secondly, you must be active (not on a Leave of Absence), for the greater portion of each schedule month. The only exception is for an Occupational Leave of Absence.
To accrue full vacation, you must remain active and have a minimum of 120+ hours in each vacation accrual quarter |
To accrue partial vacation you must remain active and have a minimum of 60-119 hours in each vacation accrual quarter |
You receive no vacation accrual if you have less than 60 credited flight hours in the vacation accrual quarter |
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Leaves of Absence (such as COLA or Medical LOA) are considered inactive and will reduce your vacation by 1/12 for each month you are inactive (regardless of credited flight hours for the quarter) |
Vacation accrual quarters are:
Vacation Accrual when on Occupational Leave of Absence
When you have an Occupational Illness/Injury, and when you do not draw any pay from your sick leave bank, you will be designated on an Occupational Leave of Absence status. On this status, our Contract protects against the reduction of vacation accrual and you receive full vacation accrual.
Vacation Accrual when on Occupational Extended Illness and Using Sick Leave
Once your Occupational claim is accepted, you will be on an Occupational Illness/Injury status and will receive a TTD payment. The dollar amount of this payment is based on average weekly pay for the previous 12-month period.
It’s important to consider that the TTD payment is not credited flight time. The amount of your TTD payment will, for the purposes of supplementing from your sick leave bank, be converted to an equivalent number of non-credited flight time hours; which are then used to calculate any draw on your sick leave bank.
When you have an Occupational Extended Illness and do draw any hours from your sick leave bank you are placed on active status (S2), and your vacation accrual is dependent upon how much flight time credit you draw from your sick leave bank.
When choosing to supplement your TTD payment with hours from your sick leave bank, you have three options:
Once you select your option, it remains in effect for the duration of your Occupational Illness/Injury
Example 1: Let’s assume your TTD payment dollar amount converts to non-credited flight time equivalent of 60 hours per month. You elect to receive maximum, 100 hours each month. The result of this will be drawing 40 hours per month from your sick leave bank to supplement your TTD payment. Assuming you were on Occupational Illness/Injury for each month of an entire vacation accrual quarter, this would result in 120 hours of flight time credit for the quarter.
Example 2: Let’s assume your TTD payment dollar amount converts to non-credited flight time equivalent of 70 hours per month. You elect to receive maximum, 100 hours each month, The result of this will be drawing 30 hours per month from your sick leave bank to supplement your TTD payment. Assuming you were on Occupational Illness/Injury for each month of an entire vacation accrual quarter, this would result in 90 hours of flight time credit for the quarter.
Example 3: Let’s assume your TTD payment dollar amount converts to non-credited flight time equivalent of 85 hours per month. You elect to receive maximum, 100 hours each month. The result of this will be drawing 15 hours per month from your sick leave bank to supplement your TTD payment. Assuming you were on Occupational Illness/Injury for (only) 1 entire vacation accrual quarter, this would result in 45 hours of flight time credit for the quarter.
Non-Occupational LOA Impact on Vacation Accrual (COLA, Medical LOA, etc)
For full vacation accrual, the Flight Attendant must be active every month of the quarter. Leaves of Absence impact your vacation accrual. When you are on a Leave for the greater portion of a schedule month, your vacation will be reduced by 1/12 (regardless of how many actual hours are flown), with the exception of Occupational Leaves of Absence.
Examples of Vacation Accrual with Occupational Injury/Illness
Example 1:
A Flight Attendant whose base vacation accrual is a 40 days:
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Sep-Oct-Nov |
Dec-Jan-Feb |
Mar-Apr-May |
Jun-Jul-Aug |
Credit hours |
120 |
120 |
Occupational Leave w/ No Sick Leave supplement |
120 |
Days accrued |
10 full |
10 full |
10 protected |
10 full |
(assumes no additional leaves of absence (eg COLA), which would result in vacation accrual loss)
Example 2:
A Flight Attendant whose base vacation accrual is a 40 days:
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Sep-Oct-Nov |
Dec-Jan-Feb |
Mar-Apr-May |
Jun-Jul-Aug |
Credit hours |
120 |
120 |
Occupational Extended Illness w/ 120 hours Sick Leave Supplement |
120 |
Days accrued |
10 full |
10 full |
10 full |
10 full |
(assumes not additional leaves of absence (eg COLA), which would result in vacation accrual loss)
Example 3:
A Flight Attendant whose base vacation accrual is a 40 days:
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Sep-Oct-Nov |
Dec-Jan-Feb |
Mar-Apr-May |
Jun-Jul-Aug |
Credit hours |
120 |
120 |
Occupational Extended Illness w/ 60-119:59 hours Sick Leave Supplement |
120 |
Days accrued |
10 full |
10 full |
5 half |
10 full |
(assumes not additional leaves of absence (eg COLA), which would result in vacation accrual loss)
Example 4:
A Flight Attendant whose base vacation accrual is a 40 days:
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Sep-Oct-Nov |
Dec-Jan-Feb |
Mar-Apr-May |
Jun-Jul-Aug |
Credit hours |
120 |
120 |
Occupational Extended Illness w/ less than 50 hours Sick Leave Supplement |
120 |
Days accrued |
10 full |
10 full |
0 |
10 full |