Unifor Local 707 Departmental Committeeperson Report – Schedule ALL your remaining Vacation pay

Brothers and Sisters,

With the year coming to an end, we would like to advise and remind everyone that if you have vacation entitlement that hasn’t been scheduled, do so before PP50.

*Note: Do not reschedule any vacation pay in PP 51 and/or PP 52 if you are planning to travel out of the country during these periods.

*If you do not schedule your vacation hours on or before PP 50, you will receive your remaining entitlement in a lump sum payment from the company on that week. 

Service Canada and the company will allocate, your vacation hours in blocks of 40 hours starting in PP 50, and then to subsequent weeks that follow until all vacation hours are expired. 

As a result, you will not receive EI or SUB pay for these weeks.

Example

Remaining Vacation entitlement: 240 hours (as member did not schedule any vacation)

PP 50: 240 hours paid in lump sum

Proper allocation of vacation pay entitlement by Service Canada and consequently the Ford Motor Company for Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) would be as follows:

PP 50 – 40 hours vacation

PP51- 40 hours vacation

PP 52 – 40 hours vacation

PP 1 – 40 hours vacation

PP2- 40 hours vacation

PP 3 – 40 hours vacation

Result

PP 51, 52, 1, 2, 3 : $0 paid (no EI/ no SUB) due to vacation allocation

Reason why you should schedule all you vacation pay prior to PP 50

• Service Canada will allocate lump sum vacation payments over several weeks, which will lead to possible future overpayments if you do not properly report earnings or a period of weeks where you would be ineligible for EI payments.
• The company will allocate lump sum vacation payments over several weeks and may not restart SUB payments (if necessary) during the Christmas Holiday period, as staff will be on holidays. In addition, when they return it may take a week or two for all required adjustments to be made.
• With many our members having served their waiting periods in PP52 of 2023, this may also extend the date in which you will be able to reapply to EI and serve your waiting period for EI and SUB on a possible new claim.

Avoid these issues, schedule ALL your vacation hours:

Visit the OACCARE Site https://azureford.sharepoint.com/sites/oaccare (when the link opens, click the tile titled “Vacation Request Form”

You can also email your Vacation request with your Name and GID to OEVCHELP@ford.com

In Solidarity,