Vacation time, personal time, etc.

[Deleted]

How many hours does your company give out? What are the rules?

I've been with my company 2 years, so I get 3 weeks vacation time.
-> 1-5 years : 3 weeks
-> 5 -15 years : 4 weeks
-> over 15 years: 5 weeks

And I have 32 hours Personal Time and 8 hours for my Birthday (Yes we get paid for our Birthdays)

Downside: by the end of the year you have to use it or lose it. I lost a week last year

But you can also purchase up to 2 weeks of vacation time which a lot of my co-workers that are parents tend to do. If you don't use all of it, you get a refund check for the remainder hours the following year.

As for my wife, she can accumulate about 4.9 hours of PTO for every 80 hours she works. She gets a statement every 2 weeks with her paycheck.

Only 40 hours of PTO can be rolled over into the following year.

[Apple]

I can carry over 240 hours from year to year, and right now I'm at 6 hours a pay period (every two weeks)--works out to about 4 weeks a year. I also get 4 hours of sick leave a pay period, no limit on carry over. At 15 years my vacation time will go up to 8 hours every two weeks, I can't wait--less than 5 years to go Time-wise looks about the same as yours. I'd love the option of being able to buy time though, my days off are worth more than the money to me (except I am working 20 hours of OT this week, so I guess money wins sometimes too).

[Lindz85]

1-5 years: 2 weeks
5-15 years: 3 weeks
15 years and up: 4 weeks.
We can carry our vacation time over though. So if I don't use my two weeks up, it will roll over and add onto the 2 weeks added on for the next year.
We also get 3 days of personal time and I'm not sure how many sick hours, but it's enough to cover if you get your seasonal colds and have an occasion day where you don't feel well.

[TD2K]

4 weeks of vacation after 15 years. Plus, we get 7 extra days of PTO that you use for illness or extra vacation. My previous employer gave us more sick time but you were only supposed to use it for illness and I never used hardly any of mine.

[servant_of_dog]

I get annually: 80 hours vacation
80 hours sick time
10 paid holidays + office closes early before every major holiday and has shortened office hours (all paid at full schedule) the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Vacation rules: Week long vacations should be approved 6 months in advance
Sick Time: Encouraged to use as needed, but since it carries over, this is really intended to be used in lieu of short-term disability (assuming you don't fall over ill/disabled within the first few years after hire), as the company covers LTD only.

If I stay one more year, I'll get 3 weeks vacation.

[Waffle]

You start out with 2 weeks vacation, and 3 personal days. The three personal days never change the max number of vacation week is 4 (I don't remember when it changes to 3 and 4 - I've been there too long).

You can't carry over personal days, you can carry over up to 40 hours of vacation a year. I used to have 5 weeks of vacation, but they sold the company and changed the rule. I still miss that fifth week.

[constanz22]

I forget how many vacation days you start with, maybe 12. I've been there 11 years and I now get 18 vacation days, 4 Floating Holidays (use or lose during the calendar year) and I think we earn one sick day per month, and can carry over an unlimited amount. I have a rediculous amount of sick time. Vacation days can also carry over, up to 12 per year. I carried over 8 from last year to this year. Part of my reasoning was that with all of the recent budget cuts (I work in local government) and talk of more layoff's, that I would have to be paid for those days. But, if we get through the year and things look ok, I may just have to take a BIG 2-3 week vacation! We also have numerous paid holiday's, maybe 8-10.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

I get 4 weeks of vacation/year, along with the week between Christmas and New Year (so 5 weeks). I can roll over a year's worth of vacation, but it has to be used the next fiscal year. Right now, I'm sitting on 3 weeks of vacation that'll need to be used before 6/30 and I've not yet touched this year's accrual of vacation - which has been accruing since 7/1, so another 2 weeks.

I *think* it goes up to 5 weeks at 15 years.

I also get 8 hours of sick time/mo and right now I have 578 hours accrued. Getting ready to take almost half of those. I can accrue my sick time indefinitely.

[piratesparrot]

I get 40 hr personal/sick time. Which I get paid out for any unused time in Jan. So I tend to hoard those.
Vacation time:
1-5yr. 2weeks
5-15 yr 3 weeks
15 & up 4 weeks
vacation time is use it or lose it.
I have been there 12 yr and it seems like I'll never get that 4th week!

[reader79]

I have 4 weeks vacation time, plus 4 personal days and 10 holidays. This kicked in after 7 years. I get 5 weeks after 17 years of service, it used to be after 15. This is my 11th year, I started here when I was 20. I have always managed to use all of my days with the exception of last year, I lost one day. This year, I can't predict anything because I am going to need some for court dates and other random nonsense due to a lawsuit.

We have unlimited sick time, so long as you don't abuse it. They just suggest that if you are going to be out for longer than 5 consecutive days, to arrange a short-term leave of absence.

[Cookies Galore]

I haven't been with my company two years yet, but I get 10 vacation days, 10 sick days, and 2 personal days. We can carry over vacation days, up to 35 hours (5 days, we have a 7-hour work day) of unused sick time is moved to our personal emergency bank (can be used for snow days, waiting for the plumber, etc.), and anything beyond those 35 hours is put in our disability bank (which has no limit).
I carried over one vacation day, so for 2011 I have 11 vacation days, 10 sick days, 2 personal days, 35 hours in my PET bank, and 42 hours in my disability bank.
Holidays: MLK Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July (and we get a four-day weekend this year), Labor Day, Thanksgiving and day after, Christmas Eve, Christmas,New Years Eve, New Years Day.

[Regis]

1-5 years: two weeks
6-10 years: three weeks
11+ years: four weeks
Rollover is whatever you earned the previous year plus two weeks. Unused vacation is paid at end of employment.

Six personal days per year.
No maximum on accumulation. Unused is not paid at end of employment.

7 holidays.

[The J]

12 sick days/year -- carry over indefinitely
5 personal days/year -- unused convert to sick days at the end of the year
15 vacation days/year -- can carry over up to 10. After 10 years, you get one more vacation day per year, until you hit 20 days per year.
We also get 12 holidays/year

[formerexpat]

1-5 yrs - 3wks
5-10 yrs - 4wks
>10 yrs - 5wks

Generally, we can carry over 5 days but this year it was increased to 10 due to the inability to take vacation time for some people this year.

Our company also offers 2 weeks parental leave, so I'm going to use that this year too.

I don't get sick too much so when I'm off sick, I don't count it against these days. Technically, you should. I also don't keep track of a couple hours here and a couple hours there waiting for service & repair men if I need to be home.

I also work from home maybe twice a month, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I've got pretty good flexibility of my own schedule for when I come and go as long as my work gets done.

[Gardening Grandma]

At the time I retired, I had 5 weeks vacation time (however there were limits on when you could take it) and 5 personal days. Sick pay covered the first 7 days of illness, then it went under a different plan. Disability was covered at full pay for 6 months, then half pay for six months. If someone were still disabled after that, they could take a disability retirement (if they had enough time in).
Of course you had to go to a company approved dr. They didn't take your physician's word for it.

[TrixAre4Kids]

6 month - 1 week
1 yr - 2 weeks
7 yrs - 3 weeks
15 yrs - 4 weeks
25 yrs - 5 weeks

1 week can be carried into 1st quarter, but use it or loose it.

Plus 8 personal days paid, 2 unpaid & 5 paid holidays after 1 year.

8 days ill in rolling 12 month period (non-management) use it or loose it.

[cubefarmer]

The amount of vacation time we get is based on salary, not tenure.
I have 3 week vacation, 2 weeks sick - use it or lose it.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

My wonderful DH (active duty military) accrues 30 days of leave per year. I think he currently has about 85 days of leave on the books ~ he'll have to take some time off when he gets back from Iraq. Sometimes he gets holidays off, sometimes he doesn't.

[yogi]

As much as I want, since I'm self-employed. The downside is that my vacations are never paid and it's hard to get away when you own a business

[jkapp]

1st and 2nd year year: 120 hours (15 days)
3rd year: 128 hours (16 days)
4th year: 136 hours (17 days)
5th year: 144 hours (18 days)
6th year: 152 hours (19 days)

than no more additional until 10th year where it goes to 200 hours. And then every fifth year after that is another 2 days added and tops off at ~240 hours.

We can carry over half the hours into the next year but must use them within the first 6 months.

No sick days...but we do get 8 hours of volunteer time each year that we can use to do something charitable (speak at a school education seminar, volunteer for various charities, etc).

[whispering17]

I currently get 80 hours vacation but will go up in July to 120 hours vacation
We also get the week between Christmas and New Year's off with pay...so always an extra week off.
We get 7 days sick time paid.
And we get 5 holidays off with pay. (not counting xmas and NY since they shut down the plant and we are paid anyway)

[midjd]

12 vacation days (can accumulate indefinitely)
9 sick days (can accumulate indefinitely)
3 personal days (they roll over, but you can only have 3 at a time - the rest convert to sick days)
and 14 paid holidays per year.

I think years 5-9 get 16 vacation days, 10-15 get 18, and 16+ get 20 per year but I'm not positive. I know the sick and personal days are the same for everyone.

[lifetimeexpatriat]

6 weeks a year from first year
does not increase
60 days carry over

I normally use all of it, but started to save some when I got pregnant, so that I could add them to maternity leave.
I've been home for 3 months now at full pay, and will remain home for at least 2 more at full pay. After that, my husband will be home for 6-8 weeks. We have to decide what to do after that.

[dancinmama]

DH's company recently changed the vacation schedule. New hires now get 3 weeks their first year when it used to be 2.

DH has been with his company for over 30 years and accrues 4 weeks vacation/year. An employee can "bank" up to 400 hours which they will get paid for upon leaving the company. DH has had 400 hours in the bank for YEARS.

The company shuts down between Xmas and New Years with pay.

There are (5) paid holidays throughout the rest of the year.

There is no allocated sick leave. If you get sick, you take time off and get paid. Managers have to talk with employees who seem to abuse the benefit. My DH is electronically connected to the company via computer/blackberry, so when he's sick he stays home; but still ends up working.

[8 Bit WWBG]

I'm also a Fed who gets 6 personal and 4 sick hours per pay period, with a rollover of 240. I managed to build up to the 240 so I always roll that over, and only use my "use or lose" for my vacations during the year. At year 15, I'll get 8 hours of personal leave per pay period.

I'm not a fan of the combined "PTO" concept. Its a great way to ensure that someone who gets sick in November but has a christmas vacation planned will come to the office sick. Although as telework becomes more comprehensive, that might mitigate the disaster.

[queenofcorona]

1-2 years = 1 week
2-12 years = 2 weeks
12-20 years = 3 weeks
20 yrs + = 4 weeks
I'm over 20, so I've nothing to look forward to!!
48 hours personal time (sickness, doctor appts, children sick, etc)
I think 7 paid holidays a year
We can carry unlimited personal time over to following years. Vacation time is used or paid out the paycheck before Christmas. I think the vacation payout will end in the next year or two because a lot of people have taken to saving time and using it as a Christmas fund. (This year they posted a list in the break rooms showing all employees and how much vacation time they had remaining at the beginning of December - in the past we've each just received a notice containing only our individual stats.)
My one beef is mgmt acts pissed if you save your time, but also act pissed when you use it. For me, no one does my stuff in my absence so it's almost a punishment to take too many days off in a row and return to a mess. As a result, I mostly take long weekends throughout the year. The max time I've taken off consecutively is one week. I dream of taking all 4 weeks at once ... but I don't think anyone has ever done that where I work, only in the case of a health issue requiring it.

[The J]

Jan 23, 2011 0:38:20 GMT -5 @lifetimeexpatriat said:

6 weeks a year from first year
does not increase
60 days carry over

I normally use all of it, but started to save some when I got pregnant, so that I could add them to maternity leave.
I've been home for 3 months now at full pay, and will remain home for at least 2 more at full pay. After that, my husband will be home for 6-8 weeks. We have to decide what to do after that.

Lifetime -- great to see you over here!! How's your baby? Everything went okay?

[tcu2003]

My company offers the following PTO rates based on years with the company:

1 through 3 12 days (96 hours)
4 13 days (104 hours)
5 14 days (112 hours)
6 15 days (120 hours)
7 16 days (128 hours)
8 through 9 17 days (136 hours)
10 through 12 18 days (144 hours)
13 through 15 19 days (152 hours)
16 and on 20 days (160 hours)

We also get 4 sick days (STO) per year. We're allowed to carryover 100 hours of PTO per year, and I think the max STO carryover doesn't occur until you've been employed for 15 years and never used a sick day, or something like that.

[Miss Tequila]

5 weeks of PTO until 10 years, then 6 weeks of PTO. It is a use it or lose it policy.

[stantonjane]

Jeesh, I used to think that we had an outrageous amount of vacation time, and it was one of those 'golden benefits' of being a govt worker. Looking at these responses, our's isn't really outside a normal range.

1-5 yrs 2 weeks
5-10 yrs 3 weeks
10-15 yrs 4 weeks
15-20 yrs 5 weeks

We have 13 holidays, 2 of which are floating holidays, days we can use as we like for the year, use it or lose it. We also get 1 day of sick leave a month, which rolls over and we are expected to use wisely, since we are not covered by short-term disability. We can cash out unused vacation time when we leave, also 1/2 of our sick bank if we've been there 20 years.