Ok, I read it a fourth time, and I think SAIA is saying that nobody will be accruing any vacation time from August 30, 2009 till the end of the year.

Just got home, and got pulled into the meeting when I got back from my run. Basically the current vacation policy will stay in effect until Jan. 1, 2010. At that time everyone starts with 0 vacation days earned unless you rolled some over. To simplify it, let's say you have been here long enough to have 3 weeks of vacation. You will earn a week every 4 months. If you want to take 3 weeks off in January, you will still get paid for them, but if you quit before you accrued those 3 weeks you will owe the company money for the amount of days taken that you had not earned yet. You still start with the same 5 personal days though. It sounded more simple in my head......but pretty much if you don't plan on going anywhere, you have nothing to worry about.

I expect that they still want us to plan our lives one year in advance and submit vacation requests prior the end of the year.

DemolitionMan

So did they explain to you how they get the 11 million dollars savings if they are not making any major changes like stopping accruing vacation pay till the end of the year???
Also does SAIA pay line drivers 40 hours vacation pay for every week earned or taken, or is it 1/52 of you gross wages earned throughout the year.
You think they would have put out a press release to explain it a little better.

line drivers is 1/52, and what about the weeks we earned this year? i guess that's where they are saving the bucks we get screwed out of this years vacation. you had to work and earn your vacation the year b/4 you took it

no they want to keep us in the dark as much as possable