MNA Vacation Planner Proposal
Our goal is to ensure that nurses have maximum access to taking their accrued time off. Our proposal would:- Create a weekly allocation of time off calculated to ensure that all nurses can use all their time. That calculation should be based on fully staffed units.
- Allocate time off equally during all non-prime time weeks, including the three holiday vacation weeks, not based on how individual managers decide to allocate time.
- Address the significant problem in which 12-hour shift nurses have been denied time off for part of their shift because hours are not being properly distributed per shift.
- Shorten the prime-time period.
- Right now, prime time is the second Sunday in May to the third Saturday in September.
- Our proposal would reduce it to Memorial Day through Labor Day.
- Nurses should be guaranteed a week off during the actual peak vacation season.