What does your office do? Do you get a lump of PTO or do you get sick time and vacation time?
PTO includes sick and vacation time. My company has that and it blows. I get sick a lot so it doesn't work out great for me.
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We have PTO that lumps vacation, sick, and holiday time all together. I really don't like it. It means people often come to work sick because they don't want to waste a "vacation" day.
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We have PTO only too. Every 5 years we earn an additional 5 days.
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All lumped into PTO
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I'm not working now, but every job I have held has had separate vacation and sick time pools.
DH just gets PTO all lumped together (which works out WAY better for him/us!).
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We only have vacation days. Sick days are "on merit" so as long as you don't abuse them we get paid sick days (for ourselves and children.) HOWEVER I start to feel guilty using them, and sometimes take vacation if it's a span of several days. When one kid gets sick then the next it can be a few days each sickness.
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We have vacation and sick time and I love it. I have about 10 weeks of sick time that I have been able to use for my maternity leaves, it rolls over every year. My company doesn't have maternity leave, however, you get your sick time back once you have returned to work for 3 months.
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All lumped together. It sucks.
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We have both. Although I can't use a sick day for L. If I tell them he's sick, they make me use vacation. Also, you can only be sick for 3 days before requiring a doctors note.
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This is one of the areas I love about my company. We have vacation, sick, AND excused time (and personal holidays). We get 2 weeks of sick (which can be used for being sick or doctor's appointments), 1 week of excused (which can be used for things like going to the dentist, taking care of your kids, car appointments, traffic making you late, etc), and then 2+ weeks of vacation.
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Lumped together. We used to get 5 sicks days, so even if you are sick a lot you had to use your vacation days. We can't carry over time.
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Whoa that is pretty crappy.
Sick time is separate from vacation time as it should be! My team doesn't have to record sick time though - my director's rationale is that we will most likely make up for it during busy season and she trusts that we won't abuse it.
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@Adira: two weeks of sick time! That is a lot!
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We have both. We have 3 weeks vacation, then officially "5 sick days." But it's pretty fluid on my team and my boss is very good about actual sick time. They usually make us use unused sick time as vacation days! Project manager, so we end up odd hours on some projects. So they don't make you take a sick day for a doc's appt or having to pick up a sick kid. As long as we're managing our workload, the only times we actually input sick days are when we are completely offline all day.
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I haven't had separate sick time at any employer I've worked for in the past 10 years.
We have PTO and then have "floating holidays" which are a separate additional 3 days you can use any time for any reason.
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@Smurfette: Yes, it is! I never used much of it until I had kids in daycare, haha. It's also really nice because if you don't use it, it gets rolled into a bank that can accumulate until you have 1040 hours and you can use that whenever you run out of sick time. I used up a lot of my banked sick time during my maternity leaves when I was on short-term disability (so that I was still paid 100% instead of only 70%).
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We lump all into PTO time - at this point in my job I accrue 19.25 hours a month (7 hours is a day off so about 2.75 days a month) first of the month. We can only carry over max 5 days into the next year and they have to be used up by the end of that year. So basically I earn 33 days a year, but not at once.
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@Adira: out company policy recently changed so that you get 30 days of paid sick time before you move on to short term disability. It was to reduce admin work.
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@Freckles: Oh, that's interesting! For us, we have to use a week of sick time before STD kicks in, but you also have to use your sick time concurrent with your STD leave if you have it before STD payment kicks in. Not sure if it reduces their admin work or not!
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We have separate sick days, vacation days, and personal days.
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They're separate...sick time is paid out at the end of the year of it isn't used (keeping a certain amount banked to roll over and paying out the rest) but vacation is use ir or lose it. I do wish vacation time would roll over, though. I am glad they're separate.
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We have separate sick and vacation days but I never take sick days so it feels like a waste. I have the option to work from home so I'd have to be really sick to take a day.
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Sick/Vacation, neither of which roll over. It blows.
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We have a choice. I think technically overall having separate sick and vacation time yields you more time off overall and it benefits people who know they get sick a lot but most people in my office pick PTO because it feels like you get way more vacation time. The drawback is you are stuck with your election for two years as you can only switch every other year during open enrollment. I guess the idea is people with young kids or chronic illness can opt to have more sick time.
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We have separate sick days from vacation days.
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PTO only....and it sucks.
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We have PTO (based on tenure) and 5 personal days, which is used for sickness/doctor visits/etc. The Employee Handbook states employees should not mix the two. However, everyone pretty much does.
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This job PTO only, but it rolls over.
My last company had vacation that did not roll over, but sick time was on merit and we had 2 days of preventative medical leave which we were supposed to use for things like annual checkups and dentist visits.
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@kiddosc: meet me, today. Ha. You're right. I hate burning PTO for sick time!!
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PTO only. I like it that way since I rarely take a sick day, and less to track.
ETA: I work from home so most of the time, I only use 2-3 hours of PTO if LO has to stay home sick, and make up my time.
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We have it all lumped together, and I prefer that. I rarely get sick, so I was always annoyed I couldn't use my sick days for a day off when they were separated. Plus, if I'm not super sick, I can just work from home and don't have to take a day off.
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One of my past employers had unlimited sick and separate PTO. It was awesome! I had a concussion and had to miss a month of work.
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Vacation and sick time.
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We have separate - vacation based on years worked and 1 day of sick leave for every month worked (12 days a year). Once you accumulate 240 hours of sick leave in your bank, it rolls over to two hours of sick leave = 1 hour of vacation every fiscal year.
I'm happy with the policy, because I take a sick day when I need it without feeling like I am losing a vacation day, but I'm generally healthy - so I get a few extra vacation days a year. -
Hmm, I accrue 8 hours of sick leave per month, and 10 hours of vacation time (comes out to 15 days a year). They are banked separately and it rolls over.
I've always used lots of sick and vacation time so I don't know the policy once you've hit the "max"
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Unlimited PTO. 10 sick days before STD
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Separate vacation and sick time, plus one floating holiday. They are pretty lenient with sick time though, I'm able to work from home if I'm not too sick, but sick enough to stay out of the office. Or if I have a sick LO.
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My employer separates our time, we get 16 sick days, 20 days vacation and 7 personal days. Sick time and vacation time are accrued and can carry over annually, personal time is given in a bank at the start of each calendar year and must be used or lost.
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Separate! 10 sick days and 15 vacation days til you're there 4 years then it's 20
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They're separate. Sick leave accrues at a constant rate no matter how long you've worked here, but the amount of annual leave you get depends on length of service. You can carry over all unused sick leave indefinitely, and annual leave up to a certain number of hours before it becomes "use-or-lose."
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