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If I took a whole day, I'd have to use paid time (or, in occasional cases, I can work from home). But if I have to leave early or come in late, I don't have to use PTO. In fact, I'm not allowed to take partial hours -- only full days.
Luckily for me...I work in the DC metro, and we follow the federal government's closure schedule. We close more often than daycare, as it's in someone's home, so all she has to do is shovel the driveway. But if it's snowy enough for the government/my office to close, we likely wouldn't make the 20-minute drive to daycare.
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I was salaried in my previous position and as long as the time off wasn't excessive then my boss was really good about allowing us flexi / glide time. It was however written into my contract that the seasonal nature of our industry would occasionally require overtime and extra hours so it usually worked out pretty even across the course of the year.
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Yes, we are expected to take partial days off if we need to come in late or leave early. However, my employer is also very flexible so I can generally make up the time at night or on a weekend or holiday if I want to.
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I'd probably just make up the time over lunch or by staying later.
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It hasn't happened yet. My office and daycare generally open and close simultaneously. DH has a ton of PTO that he uses in instances like this if it ever comes up. I go to work.
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@Modern Daisy: ah, ok I see. Then yes, but I'm a teacher.
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My expectation as a salaried employee would be that for anything over a half day, I'd take PTO. If I am out for 2 hours, that's "free" and I'll make it up at some point. If I am going to be out for 4 hours or more, I like that to be recorded.
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@Mrs. High Heels: That's where my work differs from normal salaried jobs - I can get paid overtime! It has to be approved by our manager and it has to be more than 5 hours over 40, but it's still possible to be paid overtime (at our regular rate).
Still, I'm jealous of all those people that can come in late or leave early and not have to use PTO or make up the time later and still get paid!
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I'm a salaried employee, but I work in a school so my situation is a bit different. For snow days and late starts, being a school employee works in my favor because my daycare only closes if our schools close.
Buttttt.....teaching is really really inflexible when it comes to other time off for appointments or sickness, etc. Since we have students in our classroom, you can't even be like 15 minutes late. Same with leaving early. Our old principal used to be more flexible with missing 1-2 classes---if we found another teacher that was willing to give up their conference period to cover our class, he didn't mind if we missed for appointments. But our new principal kind of insists we take an entire 1/2 day personal leave. This sucks because we only get 4 days for an entire school year--and supposedly, we are supposed to use these 4 days for our children's illnesses as well (instead of our own sick days, which technically are only for when we are sick).
So instead, you see teachers calling in sick for an entire day for a Dr. appointment or something, since we get more sick days per year than personal days.
My husband is also salaried. He can flex his time a bit, as long as he doesn't do it often. Like if he has a dr apt, he can just take a few hours off. He doesn't actually have "pto". He has unlimited sick days (but even when sick, his deadlines are the same so that doesn't encourage him to take a lot of days), and 4 weeks vacation per year that he can use as he likes. He can also work from home, very occasionally.
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My job is pretty flexible. I work in a consulting-type of job, so we have to log our time. If we log at least six hours on a particular day, then it counts as a full day. If we log fewer than than, we have to take PTO in either full- or half-day increments.
We also have goals for billable hours, and people generally work about a ten hour day, five days per week. No one works six hours per day on a regular basis. It's just the minimum from a PTO perspective.
We also have a liberal work-from-home policy.
So, to answer the OP's question, I would have to take PTO if my childcare situation resulted in me working less than six hours on a particular day. But, I could also work from home (unless there was a reason why I had to be someplace in person, such as a client meeting), and the commute time alone would save me about 1.5 hours.
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No. Like a PP said I can only take full or half days and we have flex arrival time. So if I do a late drop off at daycare and arrive at the office later than normal I just stay late to make it up. Leaving early is not a problem either because I have a laptop and can get work done at night.
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