þa‹Rþw5þ mW9þhý oþ nSystem-wideRequest for change in handling of vacation time William Strang I went on vacation from July 3 to July 18, 1987, for a trip to Europe. This involved 11 days, or 88 hours of vacation time. As of 6/30/87, I had 54.82 hours of vacation accrued, and I was accruing vacation at 3.33 hours per pay period, giving a total accrued of 58.15 hours as of 7/15/87. Thus, this trip used 29.85 hours more vacation than I had accrued through 7/15/87. Prior to taking this vacation, I had discussed with my then manager, Chris Bradshaw, what would happen when I took more vacation than I had accrued. She told me that when this had happened in the past, the individuals vacation balance had gone negative, until vacation was accrued bring it back up to zero. That policy was the one I expected and desired to be applied to this vacation. Instead, most of it was handled as leave without pay. The 72 hours of vacation in the 7/01-7/15 pay period was recorded as 58.76 hours of vacation and 13.24 hours of leave without pay. The 16 hours of vacation in the 7/01-7/15 pay period was recorded as 16 hours of leave without pay. The total leave without pay recorded was 29.24 hours. I hereby request that this 29.24 hours of leave without pay be changed to vacation. Prior to my vacation, I filled out a vacation request, which was approved by my management. GRiD's personnel office made no response to this request to indicate that it would ba handled as other than vacation. If I had wanted leave without pay, I would have requested it. I have not used any accrued vacation since July 18, so I have accrued enough vacation since then to cover the 29.24 hours. By my count, as of 12/1/87 I would have .12 hours of vacation accrued. The 29.24 hours should increase my gross pay by about $632.57.