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No you wouldn't. For one day out with no doctor visit you would have used either Personal Time (40 hours given every July 1, and which we have to use up before we get to use our Sick Time anyway), or you could have used Vacation Time, which you would have been constantly accruing on a weekly basis until you reached 200 hours. Both Personal and Vacation can be used for any absence. I've never not been paid when I have called in sick, and I usually charge it to my Vacation, because I will accrue those 8 hours back in 3 weeks (I accrue 2.77 hours/week of Vacation Time).
You have an unusual system, and the terminology is different from that typically used.
You have about 22 days of leave annually, which is a combination of vacation and personal, which can technically be used for sickness of a day or two, or presumably any other type of absence. You have a different back of sick leave that kicks in after 3 days or so.
This is simply a variation of the undifferentiated PTO system, with a bit of additional flexibility for longer illnesses. Do you get any holidays, such as Christmas, thanksgiving, or July 4th off? Are they paid days, or does your PTO bank get charged?
It isn’t a bad system, and 22 days with a bit of an insurance policy for significant illness is decent, if not great.
I have different banks of vacation, personal, sick leave, as well as being paid for holidays. It works fine, and the ability to accrue sick leave in case of significant illness is a great benefit in my opinion.
My issue is I only get 2 weeks vacation and I never use sick days and we don’t have personal days. I want to take a trip to europe, which would leave me with 1-2 vacation days left for the year, which is hardly enough. What are your thoughts on using sick days if I need a Friday or Monday off for something?
I'm a pretty honest person, but I would use the sick days. I was single during much of my working life, which meant that I had to take days off for personal business that married people didn't. Tending to a family issue, dealing with a car repair or house repair, etc. In the early days, my employers gave us a few sick days, no personal days. You had to schedule vacation days in advance, so couldn't use them for emergency repairs and such. So I would use the occasional sick day for personal business; otherwise, I would have been docked pay. It wasn't right not to provide any personal business days, esp when you were prevented from using vacation days for it. I believe it's a ploy by some companies to cut employment costs, so they will be able to dock some workers, and not all sick days will be used.
Later on, I worked for a company for many years that designated the sick days as either sick OR personal days. So I didn't have to use sick days for any reason other than illness, which was rare for me. Designating them sick or personal seems to be the norm these days, as it should be.
. Do you get any holidays, such as Christmas, thanksgiving, or July 4th off? Are they paid days, or does your PTO bank get charged?
Yes we do get holidays, New Year's, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving AND Black Friday, and Christmas, all with Holiday Pay. Because Christmas and New Year's were on Tuesdays this time around, we also got both "Eve's" off as well, WITH Holiday Pay for all 4 days.
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