scrappinwithoutpeas
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,006 
Location: Northern Virginia
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Apr 1, 2023 18:26:46 GMT
So I finally work in a state that has separate sick time from PTO. Typically my sick time was my PTO which made you really think hard about vacations. Now I have a separate bank. Fantastic right? Nope. Employer put in a caveat that you can only have three uses of sick time per rolling year. After that you get a write up. Doesn’t matter what your sick time balance is. So again you have to be very careful. While I think there should be limits to avoid abuse of sick time I feel 3 incidents when you have a balance is not appropriate. People should be able to use their time. If they go over the allotted hours in the year then that’s a discussion to be had. I’m believe they also limit when you can use sick time like before/after holidays etc. so basically you have to be sick in the middle of the week and only three times in a rolling year. That is a crazy policy. Here when mandatory sick time became law most businesses just lumped it with PTO. My husband didn’t gain any time off. His vacation time just became PTO. He got 8 vacation hours per month before law. Now gets 8 hours PTO per month. No more vacation time. Just PTO. Similar to the company where I worked - they did away with sick time altogether and lumped all time off as PTO (with no actual increase in the amount of PTO of course). We still got the 10 paid holidays (7 fixed and 3 floating). They also have some other weird rules surrounding use of it, like disallowing use of PTO or floating holidays in any 2-week period where you've also worked overtime or some such nonsense. |
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Post by cawoman on Apr 1, 2023 19:16:11 GMT
My last job before retiring was with a large financial institution. Prior to being purchased by this company, we had benefits which went into effect on day 1 of employment. Both vacation and sick time allowances were generous.
When the purchase of the company (headquarters was on an opposite coast) became finalized, the new sick leave policy was unlimited days. If someone called in sick they got paid. Being in HR at the time I predicted and was proven right that there would be problems with that policy in place. The majority of the employees were at a high enough level that they weren't an issue. They were there to work and and get their job done. One particular situation I recall was a guy was hired as some kind of assistant. I kid you not, after being there a couple weeks, he started calling in probably 2-3 days out of 5. This company was so paranoid about getting sued by employees that they didn't care. The manager cared, I cared, but it didn't matter. Ridiculous.
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