Posted on 10/14/2016 9:04:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
everyplace i've worked the other people in the department covered for those on vacation etc that or hired a temp for when girls went out for being pregnant
those with unused time at the end of the year got paid for their unused days off if rolling it over to the next year wasn't allowed
but i do get your point
For many employers, the use it or lose it policy kicks in when they realize the financial liability of it piling up. “You leave and get six months of unpaid vacation when you leave?” Then it gets changed to two months carryover max, then one month, etc.
I guess it’s all of those evil small business owners, stealing from their employees again. We had better tax them more, in the interest of fundamental fairness. :)
Reasons they don’t take it:
* it is sick time and you don’t meet the threshold
* take too much paid time off of any type, get a bad review and put on the next list for cuts - especially true if the company is pushing overtime on people
* employer has teams down to minimum headcount, and if you take time off beyond two or three days, work is severely disrupted - so you risk a bad reputation for taking much time off
* rules for permission to take vacations mean you can get a Friday before a three day weekend off but not a whole week elsewhere, so you can’t use all the PTO
* if you use a month of PTO and it isn’t maternity leave or another medical reason, the employer learns how they can do without you and has someone likely trained now in HOW to do your job ... and they can replace you
Sounds like a good place to work
The ones I hate are the days off / holidays with demands for interruptions.
“You can have the day off, but check X every 15 minutes (IT monitoring) and fix if necessary - that’s full pay for that time.”
“Check in on X for an hour on Sunday. You get paid for that hour. If you have to fix it, full pay for that time to fix it.”
Management didn’t understand how demands for weekend and evening activities interrupted personal life and limited options. Yes, I could be home with the children those days within reason, but you can’t GO anywhere.
I’m short by $50k, but I’ve only got a 2yr degree, so...
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