Effective January 1, 2008, eligible salaried employees, including employees serving a probationary period for any part of the year, shall be awarded additional vacation leave as follows, whichever is more generous to the employee: If one day or less of sick leave is used in any calendar year, an employee will be awarded two additional days of vacation leave; if two days or less of sick leave are used in any calendar year, an employee will be awarded one additional day of vacation leave. This program shall be accomplished through the payroll system as soon as practicable after the end of the calendar year. Only salaried employees who have been in a pay status for the complete calendar year shall be eligible for this sick leave incentive program.

A complete calendar year shall begin on January 1 and end December 31 and shall include all regularly scheduled workdays for the salaried employee (including observed holidays). In order to qualify as a complete calendar year, a salaried employee must not have been in a leave of absence without pay status for two full workdays or longer. New salaried employees must begin work on the first workday in January, exclusive of January 1 (New Year's Day), and up to the next two days if such comprise a weekend for the employee's work site, in order to be eligible to have been in a pay status for the complete calendar year.

All references to "day" in this Section refer to the salaried employee's standard hours per day (bi-weekly hours divided by ten), to a maximum of eight hours.