so they're sayin the workers are tooo stooopid to take their time off???Forfeit? A lot of places it just rolls over.
The plant that I recently retired from is now working short weeks due to reduced demand. The short weeks are an attempt to avoid a layoff. However the section I worked in usually are given the opportunity to work shutdown days, it beats getting a short check.
Where my younger daughter works it is very common for people to give their vacation time to someone with medial issues. Even the manager has been known to help out.
Where I work...no benefits. You take a day off you get a point. 12 points and your fired.
The French picked up we didn’t use and then consumed TWICE that amount. Fat chance you can transact any business in almost all of Europe,in tne summer.
so they're sayin the workers are tooo stooopid to take their time off???This hits home. I have 320 hrs of Vacation, 240 in personal, and over 800 in sick. If I take it, I’ll fail. I am a manager, but the tempo is too fast. If anything, I jealous of the folks who punch a clock.
There are jobs that are key, and there are those that are not. Maybe they’ll send me a postcard from the beach.
Also, my workload has doubled. What used to be a demanding job at 50 hrs per week, has become insane. When one of my peers left and they gave me his facility, across town, to maintain. I am never, ever, off.
As a federal contractor, I get two weeks (10 days) of vacation time which also represents my coverage for sick time. Obama signed an order last year saying that contractors must allow seven paid days of sick time for employees but the contract companies are no more compliant than Hillary Clinton is with confidential memos.
I haven’t taken a real vacation in years, you know the type where you travel somewhere and explore or visit distant family members. Instead, I take an occasional sick day when I don’t feel well. Plus, I’ve had to work every holiday this year because the unionized government workers all take the day off.
In 5-10 years, I’ll retire and start taking some time off. Right now, I can’t afford it and it’s not truly offered. I’m just thankful at my age the Lord has provided me a job when many others can’t get one.
FORFEIT? Not hardly! I worked many a day off and vacations, double shifts and got over time pay for it along with regular “vacation” pay! Put most of it in a 401-K.
In the last two years of working I took no vacations, worked and got overtime plus vacation pay. On regular days off I worked and got time and a half. I even covered for other employees who were on vacation or on days off.
I was ready to retire in great shape when the recession hit and I lost some of it. I still retired in decent shape that I have not had to work for the last eight years.
Life is still good!
I get 104 days off a year.
It’s called “Saturday” and “Sunday.”
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