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Post by Apple on Apr 14, 2011 14:20:35 GMT -5
Thanks, MJ, that makes sense...
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Post by reader79 on Apr 14, 2011 14:30:21 GMT -5
I have four weeks vacation that I earned after seven years of employment. It goes to five weeks at either 15 or 17 years, I forget which. All employees get four personal days if they work the full year, otherwise it's prorated. We also get ten paid holidays, and sick days are unlimited as long as there is no abuse.
Last year was the first year that I actually took all of my days, I usually end up losing a few.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 14, 2011 14:57:15 GMT -5
160 hours of vacation (which can be rolled over up to 400 hours after that you won't get any new hours until you use some up), 10 holidays, and 168 hours of sick/ personal combined (this is use it or lose it)
It will take another 4 years of service until I get an additional week of vacation (= max). All in all not bad.
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Post by runewell on Apr 14, 2011 15:29:24 GMT -5
About 20 days plus 6 sick days; a week of vacation can be rolled over and I normally roll most of it.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 14, 2011 23:27:25 GMT -5
I get 4 hours every two weeks. Most of my days are nine hours so takes me a long freaking time to get enough hours to take a whole day off. The flip side to that though is I work 9 out of 10 weekdays in that two week period. I try to do things on my regular day off but sometimes life doesn't work like that. Tomorrow's payday so I currently have 37.5 hours now.
I'd sort of like to take Good Friday off and be home for Easter but I guess I will suck it up. It is my one eight hour day though so I would only need the eight hours leave.
I get 4 hours sick leave every two weeks as well. It can be used for doctor's appointments as well as being sick. I thought I had a lot of sick leave saved up but I've burnt through most of it. Literally I used 16 hours last year and I started in late June. I'm still not completely better so I'm hesistant to use my annual leave for things I want.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 15, 2011 0:37:22 GMT -5
Is there a poll option on this board? Anyway, I get 4 weeks of PTO per year (no separate sick time bucket ). However, I have nearly 16 weeks banked right now. ;D Part of that is because I am a workaholic, but I also think of my vacation time as a backup emergency fund. If I should lose my job for any reason, I figured I would get paid out for my unused PTO (my employer is pretty stable so the chances of losing it are pretty slim). And the longer I wait to cash it out, the more the vacation time is worth thanks to salary increases. Does anyone else think of their vacation time in the same manner, or am I just being weird? azphx: I don't think you're being weird at all. DH has over 10 weeks of vacation banked. We originally banked it as an additional form of unemployment insurance, but that was years and years ago. When he retires in early 2012, they will have to pay it off and at a MUCH HIGHER rate than when it was originally accrued. He gets (4) weeks/year and paid shut down between Xmas and New Year's in addition to the major holidays (Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving). There is no accrued sick leave. You take off when you're sick and they pay you. If you have a long-term illness, they pay you.
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Post by gawgagranny on Apr 15, 2011 3:28:53 GMT -5
Oh illinichem, what a wonderful idea--the 6 week sabbatical every 6 years! I take it this is in addition to, not instead of, whatever other leave you may have earned....that would be nice!
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Post by share88 on Apr 15, 2011 4:57:26 GMT -5
Ok, just curious because I've never had a job that had them, but what is a personal day compared to a vacation day? I don't know if it is this way everywhere, but where I am it sets the minimum you can take off. For vacation, 1/2 day is the minimum "block". Personal time can be taken in smaller increments - like 1 hour. Plus everyone in the company has same personal time allotment - you can earn more vacation with more time in service (subject to limitations of course).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2011 5:22:27 GMT -5
I'm interested in how some of you manage to not take a single vacation/personal day in a whole year. IMO that would be torture. My job isn't even that stressful and even I need some away from those idio... I mean my lovely co-workers.
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Post by Agatha on Apr 15, 2011 7:43:07 GMT -5
I got about eight hours of PTO every two weeks, which included "holidays". So it was about 26 days per annum and it did go up the longer you were there or if you achieved a higher level. Folks would accumulate it so they could "sell" it back but you could only sell 80 hours once a year and have 80 hours left after. There was no "use it or lose it" policy.
No sick leave. If you were sick they simply used your PTO's to round you up to 80 hours for the pay period. If you needed medical leave for any reason your PTO's were used first then temp disability came on board. The kicker with calling in sick was the potential for being "written up" for it, with or without a doctor's note. A colleague of mine was "written up" for an "unexcused" absence because he had the audacity to be hospitalized in the ICU for chest pain.
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Post by tractor on Apr 15, 2011 8:34:33 GMT -5
I get 200 hours of PTO, can't carry it over, but get paid for any unused time at the end of the year. I try my best to burn it all, but as an added bonus, I acrue PTO for hours worked over 80 per pay period, which usually leave me 40 or so additional hours at the end of the year I didn't know I had, so I get a little extra in my first pay check of the year.
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Post by TD2K on Apr 15, 2011 8:55:23 GMT -5
I get 25 or 27 days, can't remember which. My company was bought out and the new one gives you somewhat less sick time but rolls the sick time in with your vacation. You get to use it as sick time if needed or vacation time if you aren't sick. I never used hardly any sick time with my old company, just lost it as it was capped at 160 hours, so this is much better for me. We get 8 stat holidays also (Ii think) and one personal floating day off,
ETA: I went back and looked at our documentation. Over 10 years you get 25 days. Over 15 years you get 27 days and I hit 15 years this year. 7 stat holidays and one floating stat.
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Post by spartan7886 on Apr 15, 2011 9:02:36 GMT -5
I get 80 hours of vacation and the option to buy up to 48 additional hours (as mentioned by someone else, basically unpaid leave, but the hit is spread among all your paychecks). We also get 9 holidays and a personal day. The personal day in our case is because the New Orleans office gets Mardi Gras off and nowhere else does, so the rest of us get one day to use whenever to make up for it.
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Post by midjd on Apr 15, 2011 9:21:25 GMT -5
Annually, I get 12-14 paid holidays (depending on whether it's an election year), 12 vacation days, 9 sick days, and 3 personal days. Everything rolls over except personal days.
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Post by dancinmama on Apr 15, 2011 9:21:39 GMT -5
I'm interested in how some of you manage to not take a single vacation/personal day in a whole year. IMO that would be torture. My job isn't even that stressful and even I need some away from those idio... I mean my lovely co-workers. Are you talking to those of us who accrued vacation? DH accrued 400 hours over a few years. He took vacation every single year, but maybe he'd take a week and bank a week. The next year he might have only banked a couple of days. Back in those days, layoffs were common where he worked and we were in our thirties on a single income and I was home with a baby.
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Post by garion2003 on Apr 15, 2011 13:31:20 GMT -5
vacation time is accrued montly, but works out to be 20 days per year. Maximum carry over from year to year is 40 days.
sick leave is the same (20/year) with max carry over of 180 days.
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Post by formerexpat on Apr 15, 2011 17:24:22 GMT -5
I get 4 weeks a year. Generally, we can only carry over 5 days but last year I carried over 10 because we were really busy last year. Add in the 2 weeks parental leave I have this year for the birth of my son, and I've got over 40 days to use up this year...and this year is another extraordinarily busy year, so I don't know when I'm going to take that either.
I look at my short term disability and long term disability policies as my emergency fund should something occur.
Some companies are moving to PTO instead of having vacation and sick days. Too many employees were abusing sick days and using them as vacation days so employers switched and said you get x total days, take them how you need them.
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Post by LlamaLlamaDuck on Apr 16, 2011 17:13:08 GMT -5
We get 144 hours (18 days) of combined sick/vacation/personal, on top of paid company holidays. I like to stretch out company holidays by adding a day or two of PTO
Anything over 40 hours is use it or lose it. I lost 8 hours in the 2010-2011 transition. Wish I would have had the presence of mind to donate it to the time bank for somebody else to use for sick leave.
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Post by Malarky on Apr 16, 2011 19:34:00 GMT -5
Three weeks plus as much unpaid time off as I need or want. One year it was an extra two weeks when DS was in the hospital. This year it seems to be scattered days to see day games at Fenway. ;D
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Post by ❤ mollymouser ❤ on Apr 16, 2011 19:35:04 GMT -5
I get 52 weeks a year
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Post by happyscooter on Apr 17, 2011 7:16:51 GMT -5
DH just started a new job after retiring from his old company. He gets 1 week. A year. After 3 years he gets 2 weeks. I have never heard of anything that low. Hopefully, his boss will let him take a few days off unpaid so we can get in a few long week-ends.
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Post by azphx1972 on Apr 17, 2011 8:37:16 GMT -5
happyscooter, wow that is low! Does he work for Scrooge?
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Post by happyscooter on Apr 17, 2011 8:40:08 GMT -5
I don't think so. Just different.
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Post by TD2K on Apr 17, 2011 10:52:40 GMT -5
That can definitely be a factor if you are leaving a long time job and starting out in the basement in terms of vacation.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 17, 2011 11:33:16 GMT -5
I get 4 weeks vacation, plus the week off between Christmas and New Year's. I also accrue a day of sick time/mo and it can accrue indefinitely. If I get over 500 hours, I can exchange 8 days of sick time for 5 of vacation.
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Post by daylight on Apr 17, 2011 11:47:17 GMT -5
I used to get 21-22 days per year, no sick days, banking was not allowed but tolerated. Of course, I used up all my days and then some last year for my bar exams. Thus I had my last real non-study related vacation last July...2 whole days...and it's showing. Sometimes, I could kill for a day off. Of course, it would help, if I did not have to work more than 40 hours per week. I'm looking forward to my vacation this year in July (a full week-yeah!) and I have just asked my boss for another day off in the next weeks. She said it was okay, but not in the next two weeks...
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Post by SVT on Apr 17, 2011 18:55:48 GMT -5
Been at current company for 2 months. We get 240 hours/year! 10 hours accumulate each pay period, we get paid twice a month, so 20 hours/month. I have 30 hours already LOL.
We can carry over 120 hours from year to year.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Apr 17, 2011 19:16:07 GMT -5
I get 10 vacation days, 10 sick days, and 2 personal days (same amount of personal days for everyone in the company). I can carry over vacation time, personal time is use it or lose it, and sick days are put into two banks. The first bank is personal emergency time and we can bank up to 35 hours, which is our work week. Once that pet bank is full, sick leave is put into your disability bank, which has no limit. Right now, I have 27 hours in my emergency bank (I took a snow day in January) and 42 hours in my disability bank. Once I get to three years of service my vacation/sick time is increased to 14 days each. One more year!
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Post by TrixAre4Kids on Apr 17, 2011 21:35:13 GMT -5
I get 52 weeks a year Molly, you're my ideal! I get 5 weeks of vacation, 8 paid/2 unpaid personal days and 6 paid sick days. Major holidays but not President's Day, Columbus/Vet's or MLK.
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