Vacation and Holiday
Overview
Union Pacific encourages a work-life balance and offers a generous paid holiday and vacation benefit to their nonagreement employees.
Number of Vacation Days
Nonagreement employees qualify for paid vacation each year. Length of vacation is determined by years of continuous service. An employee’s vacation pay rate will be the employee’s base salary rate in effect on the day the employee starts vacation.Two weeks of vacation is allotted and prorated for the calendar year in which the employee is hired. The following table shows the number of vacation days allotted during the first calendar year in which an employee is hired:
| Date of Hire | Vacation Days |
| Jan. 1 | 10 |
| Jan. 2 - Feb. 1 | 9 |
| Feb. 2 - March 1 | 8 |
| March 2 - April 1 | 8 |
| April 2 - May 1 | 7 |
| May 2 - June 1 | 6 |
| June 2 - July 1 | 5 |
| July 2 - Aug. 1 | 4 |
| Aug. 2 - Sept. 1 | 3 |
| Sept. 2 - Oct. 1 | 3 |
| Oct. 2 - Nov. 1 | 2 |
| Nov. 2 - Dec. 1 | 1 |
| Dec. 2 - Dec. 31 | 0 |
Vacation Time After First Year of Employment
The following table shows the number of vacation weeks allotted for years of service in any calendar year (as of a nonagreement employee’s anniversary).
| Years of service | Vacation |
| 1 to 4 years | 2 weeks |
| 5 to 9 years | 3 weeks |
| 10 to 19 years | 4 weeks |
| 20 years or more | 5 weeks |
Holidays
Up to 11 nonagreement employee holidays may be recognized each calendar year. If a holiday falls on Saturday, the holiday is observed on Sunday; if a holiday falls on Sunday, it is observed on Monday.
| New Year's Day | |
| President's Day | |
| Good Friday | |
| Memorial Day | |
| Independence Day | |
| Labor Day | |
| Thanksgiving Day | |
| Day after Thanksgiving | |
| Christmas Eve | |
| Christmas Day | |
| New Year's Eve |