Les,

Please don't get me wrong, this is a huge issue.  It was a bad idea and they could have just satisfied their need to curtail the behavior by coding the time as 'ill' instead of 'hol' or designate the day as a PDP or open the vacation schedule to all who wanted the day, maintaining weekend duty coverage levels.  This is a big can of worms, one they should have left alone.

pnb