PTO Poll (see OP for the question)

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I get 4 weeks of PTO I can roll over 1 week of that (which I never do, I just use it all) I also get 7 sick and 3 personal. They do not roll over exactly….. they roll into some kind of “banked” thing that is much impossible to use unless you’re out for extended time.

 

[jimmymc]

Vacation is use it or lose it, and most managers are good about wanting you to use it. I've even heard of directors telling managers that they'll get lower performance review scores if they don't use most of their time. The time off scales with years at the company, and holidays don't count against it.

If you're out sick for less than a week, you just figure out coverage with your manager and get full pay. For 2-3 weeks, you need to set up short term leave with HR, but you'll still get paid. Longer than that and you go on long-term leave, which has partial pay unless you opt in to an insurance plan that covers the rest.

 

[starry_solo]

Mine is none of the above. It’s one pool, we get time based on how long we’ve been employed but can accumulate 2080 hours. Once we hit that point, then we stop accumulating. It’s been very useful when having to take FMLA.

I’m at the point where I accumulate 312 hours off per year.

 

[Bad Pink Tink 2.0]

This is a link to Citizens Advice about Paid Annual Leave allowed by law in Ireland
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/...d-conditions/leave-and-holidays/annual-leave/

Cliff Notes
If you have worked at least 1,365 hours in a leave year you are entitled to the maximum of 4 working weeks' paid annual leave.
If you have worked for at least 8 months, you are entitled to an unbroken period of 2 weeks' annual leave. This means you can get 2 weeks off in a row.
Holiday pay (pay for annual leave) must be paid in advance at your normal weekly rate.

The following types of paid leave do not affect paid annual leave, means you can continue to build up your entitlement to annual leave.

• Maternity leave or additional maternity leave
• Adoptive leave or additional adoptive leave
• Paternity leave
• Parental leave
• Parent’s leave
• Health and safety leave

This is a link to Citizens Advice about sick leave in Ireland
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/...s/leave-and-holidays/sick-leave-and-sick-pay/

Cliff Notes

Since 1 January 2024, you have a right to 5 days’ sick pay a year (increased from 3 days in 2023). This is called statutory sick pay (that means the legal minimum). Sick pay is paid by your employer at 70% of your normal pay up to a maximum of €110 a day.

You must be an employee and be working at least 13 weeks with your employer before you can get statutory sick pay.
Under the sick leave legislation, you must be certified by a medical practitioner as unable to work to qualify for statutory sick pay. You should be certified from day 1 of your sick leave. Your employer cannot apply ‘waiting days’ before you get statutory sick pay.

 

[LoveDaisy]

We still have banks of time. We get the standard holidays off.

All employees vote and we get 3 half days before holidays. It is usually thanksgiving, Christmas, and new years.

We get one employee appreciation day, where they close the company. It is usually used if a holiday falls on a Thursday or Tuesday (like 4th of July) to give us a long weekend. If the holidays don’t fall like that it’s usually the Friday before Memorial Day.

I get 25 vacation days, 3 I can roll over but they must be used in the next calendar year.

I get 4 floating holidays, they cannot be carried over.

I get 10 sick days, they cannot be carried over.

If you have been at the company for 10 years or more you can buy a week of vacation time. If not used within the calendar year purchased, you are paid back for the time in the last paycheck of the year.

 

[princesscinderella]

We are employers with 5 employees. We give 80 hours PTO when they start and they can go up to 120 hours after being with us for 3 years. It’s all one pot for sick or vacation. If they don’t use it they get it paid out in their final paycheck or the year. It’s harder to function when one person is gone since we are a small team so we encourage them to plan their vacation time when we go away. We just require that we have one person who will answer the phones so everyone can’t be gone at once. We have started taking two week international trips in the summer while we still have a few summers left with our teens. It gives them some flexibility for planning their trips too. We have a wonderful staff who works well as a team and we are very thankful for them.

 

[BorderTenny]

We start out with 3 weeks of PTO. A maximum of 40 hours can be carried over to the following year, but must be used by June 30. The hours are doled out incrementally at the beginning of each month, but I think technically you're allowed to use hours that haven't been earned yet.

My department works 4 10's, so everyone has at least one weekday off. That helps reduce the need to use PTO for doctor appointments and other stuff that needs to be done on weekdays.

 

[Lesverts]

I work for a company that is based near Albany, New York but has operations across the United States, Ontario, Australia and New Zealand. Currently they try coordinate staff benefits between the two sections of the company. So all North American employees get the same treatment and all Aus/NZ employees get the same.

So we get 11 paid holidays
Minimum 2 weeks paid vacation, that goes to 3 weeks at 3 years and 4 weeks at 7.
24 hours of paid sick days

PTO is a bit weird in Ontario were I am because they use the accumulation model. You get a percentage of your weekly pay added to your PTO bank. So with overtime/undertime you can accumulate more or less money then time you are entitled to. You can carry over up to 80 hours worth of accumulated bank into the next calendar year. Everything else is paid out on the last pay of January.

Sick days are use or it lose it. And I lose a lot of it.

I have some issues with the system. Namely the start date. Since they want us to take vacation time in the winter, but no one really has time from January to April because of the system no one does. If we had a July 1 start for vacation year it would be better for everyone.

 

[RedAngie]

I’m retired but my PTO and sick leave was always use it or lose it.

For many years there were separate banks for vacation, personal, and sick days. The last few years I worked it was all in one pool.

 

[texaslover]

I get district holidays and district shut down days off. We also get 10 days of PTO which counts as sick days as well. 5 of these are considered Local (only pertain to your school district and what they pay for) and 5 are STATE (are part of your days paid by state funds). Everyone uses Local first bc state can be transferred to any district in the state if you decide to change jobs. If you leave a district you get paid for district but not state. If you retire you get paid up to a certain number for both (I think 300 hours) and then you get paid for the rest at a discounted rate. This encourages people who set a retirement date to use all of their hours down to the fully paid limit.

Also these days include maternity and disability leave, you have to use your accrued days for that. When I had double knee replacements I had saved up enough over 17 years that I still had over 30 days of leave after paying for my days off.

 

[CynBeth]

I had to get a new job a year ago and vacation and sick are not separate. You accrue a certain amount of PTO hours per pay to equal 10 days a year the first few years. Then years 2-5 it is 16. I believe years 6-10 is 20 or something like that. We can carry over a certain amount of unused to the next year. At my old job it was great. We got 6 sick days which luckily I rarely used but we lost those at the end of each year. The vacation time we accrued a certain number of hours per pay and had 20 something days which a certain amount could be carried over. We also got 4 floating days per year which had to be used did not carry over.