POLICY
It is the policy of the Department of Natural Resources to ensure all eligible employees are provided vacation leave as outlined in the ORC, OAC and all Collective Bargaining Agreements. All eligible full-time employees will earn and be granted vacation. Eligible part-time employees shall earn vacation on a prorated basis. Employees may use their accrued leave at the completion of their initial probationary period.
VACATION ACCRUAL
VACATION LEAVE
1. The Employer shall grant vacation leave requests pursuant to applicable collective bargaining language and/or established Division/Office policies and procedures.
2. Vacation leave shall be taken only at times mutually agreed to by the Employer and the employee. The Employer may establish minimum staffing levels for a facility work location which could restrict the number of concurrent vacation leave requests which may be granted for that work location.
3. When an emergency exists, all vacation leave requests may be denied, including those requests already approved. If an employee is called back to work from a scheduled vacation leave period due to operational needs, the employee will have the right to take the vacation leave at a later time. Said employee will be compensated at time and one-half of his/her base rate for the time the employee is on recall status.
TERMINATION FROM SERVICE
Upon termination for any reason, all vacation leave balances will be paid at regular rate to the employee at the time that the employee received his/her pay check for the final pay period of work. OCSEA employees separating from employment with less than six (6) months total service will not be paid for any accrued vacation hours. FOP employees separating from employment with less than one (1) year total service will not be paid for any accrued vacation hours.