Operating Employees
An operating employee who has earned at least ten (10) days’ pay for each calendar month of a vacation year shall earn vacation leave at the following rates:
(a) one hundred and twenty three decimal seventy-five (123.75) hours per vacation year if the employee has completed less than eight (8) years of continuous employment;
(b) one hundred and sixty five (165) hours per vacation year if the employee has completed eight (8) years of continuous employment;
(c) two hundred and six decimal twenty-five (206.25) hours per vacation year if the employee has completed nineteen (19) years of continuous employment;
(d) two hundred and forty seven decimal five (247.5) hours per vacation year if the employee has completed thirty (30) years of continuous employment.
Effective September 1, 1999: