You didn't lose anything. If you were paid for it in 2003, then it wasn't available to carry forward to 2004 and was handled just as though you borrowed PVD's this year against next year's accrual.
As much as it sucks to see future accrual go in the toilet, the fact is that you were still paid for what you accrued under the pre-2003 contract.
Again, go read your contract. It's under Article 8, attachment 8.2. Don't have a printed copy? Go to Jetnet like I did.
Doubletalk.
If you "handle" my week that I used from one year, that was a regular week and now charge it as PVD what happened to the original week?
The fact is that when the week was bid, it was bid as a week earned, which it was, then the company took the week and charged it as if we should not have used it and subtracted it from our next years VC.
The fact is we lost a week that we already earned, call it deferred, pvd or whatever you like its still a week we lost that was earned the prior year.
If you had only earned two weeks vacation in 2002 and used it in 2003 you had no vacation in 2004.
Read the contract carefully
The basic principal of the transition application is that each employee with vacation remaining in 2003 will roll one (1) week of 2002’s accrued vacation to use in 2004 thus reducing 2003 accrual by two (2) weeks. The application in effect combines vacation weeks from 2003 and 2004 which are then divided between the two years depending on whether or not the employee has already used some or all of his current vacation. The net effect is that we reduce the total weeks over the two (2) years by two (2) weeks. (In other words vacation earned in 2002 and 2003 will be cut by two weeks, one week earned in 2002 and one week earned in 2003)
They did this to screw us out of an extra week. The contract only had us give up one week a year from April of 2003. It did not say that we lose two weeks the first year and one from then on, so they installed this BS language to screw us out of an extra week, and make it a retro-concession.It even says the week accrued in 2002.The scumbag spinmasters didnt fool anyone with this, except you.
So the fact is that was a week we already had, just like the stock we already have(and lose if we dont excercise it before a certain date), and it was taken away.
Here we go, early openers in 2006!
The basic principal of the transition application is that each employee with stock options remaining in 2006 will have its excercise expiration date rolled back to 2005. The application in effect combines the options from 2003 and 2004 which are then divided between the two years depending on whether or not the employee has already excercised some or all of his current options. The net effect is that we reduce the term through which the options could be excercised to 2005. Those options not excercised by the applicable date of this application will experience the net effect of applied options expiration.