Your paid time off benefits at work.

If you include your paid vacation days, sick days, PTO days and holidays, how many days per year do you get?

or not quite four weeks. It can be used for sick time or vacation - it all comes out of one bank. But we also get 10 paid holidays a year in addition to the 150 hours. (almost forgot that!!)

What sucks is when I had to take this job (back injury prevented me from staying a bedside nurse), I lost 30 hours a year. I work at the same hospital but since I am non union now, I had to take a reduction in PTO.


Oh - and I have worked there for 9 years.

22 vacation (leave) days. 2 days at Thanksgiving. 23rd of december to January 2 so thats another 10, then labor day, memorial day, july 4, MLK day. So around 38 days. 7.5 weeks if I took all the personal leave. University policy is that after you accumulate 40 days of vacation, you can't get any more. Plus, if you leave they will not pay you for more than 22. It's a sweet deal. This summer I'll take Fridays off, 2 weeks in July, and still have about a months leave accumulated. I also need to say that I'm kind up the payscale so that is how I get the 22 leave days. Lower down is around 14 leave days.

I got New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas off with pay, plus one personal day with pay, plus 10 days of vacation and I think 5 sick days. I can't remember; I resigned 18 months ago. The vacation accrued, which is a pain in the ass.

Mr. Brickbat gets two weeks of vacation and that's it. It's a 24/7/365 job. Holidays do get double time, however, IIRC.

ETA: If Mr. Brickbat works six 12-hour shifts in a row, he's required to take two days off. And if he works 20 shifts in a given 30-day period, he can have the rest of the 30-day period off if he wants. That time off is unpaid.

I'm essentially a full-time worker who's classified as a part-time worker. I get overtime. I am not paid for holidays, sick days or vacation. It sucks, too, big time, and perhaps if jobs were plentiful I'd do something about it.

Therapist.

39 days total, 40 in years where there is a general election.

This includes vacation, sick time, personal leave and holidays.

Construction.

Holiday and vacation pay is supposedly figured into our hourly rate. It makes sense, given the nature of the business. In 1996, I worked for 14 different contractors. Who would pay what?

Mr. Brickbat left commercial construction a couple years ago after 15 years because it's gotten so slow where we're at.

24 pto days and 12 paid holidays a year. They let us roll over up to 80 hours unused pto every year, I had 7 days unused from last year so I've got 43 days off this year, and I'm going to take every one of them :)

4 weeks vacation
3 personal days
100 sick days but that is the maximum
about 12 holidays

okay it is really 23 years, 22 before being made redundant/3 months on contract/1+ off them rehiring me

you can't take any of it if you are not "on pace".

Guess what....NOBODY'S "on pace".

Fuckers actually denied one of my co-workers
her vacation request today.

The suck here is becoming unbearable.

26 days of vacation. 13 sick days. 10 paid holidays.

49 days per year.

Plus my schedule is flexible, so if I want to take a morning or afternoon off for a personal matter, I can do that too.

5 sick days and 6 holidays.

Deliberately hired under 20 hours at two public libraries do the cities don't have to pay me any benefits.

And now you know the secret of living in being/or living in a Muslim society where the Prophet (PBUH) mandated so many holidays!

:evilgrin:

Trust me: THEY DON'T HATE US FOR OUR VACATION TIME!

6 weeks PTO
10 paid holidays
3-5 paid days between christmas and new year's

i am VERY lucky

ten weeks, including vacation, sick, and holidays. I'm very grateful for all of it. I hardly ever take sick so I've banked tons of it, and I hardly ever take vacations, but I'm able to cash in once a fiscal year, so I usually do that at Christmas; helps with bills.

9 paid holidays, 1 paid personal day, 1-sick day per month that can be accrued. Right now I've got 3 months worth of sick days coming. Hmmmmm . . . I feel a cough coming on. ;-)

I have 23 PTO (combined vacation, sick leave, and personal) and 9 holidays. We accumulate them a little each pay period and can roll over 5 PTO days into the next year. In reality, we are expected to take fewer and lose some every year.

Also, the number of days is based on your level, not time at the company. The lower level jobs get either 13 or 18, and the highest level jobs get 33. Basically, the people who need the time off the most receive the least.

and for every year I work I accrue PTO at a higher rate...something like that. According to my last paystub, I have 48.12 hours of PTO available and 58.92 hours of STD (short term disability) available.

Union plasterer-good wages, but no paid days off.

wages-$40.25 an hour on the check-when there's work

health benefits-$11.00 an hour-we pay

pension-defined benefit-$3.00 an hour-we pay

retirement savings-$4.00 an hour-we pay

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$58.25 an hour-total package

no paid vacation-no paid sick days-no paid holidays-your paid for hours worked

11 holidays, 12 paid sick days, and 10 vacation days.

I'm "self-employed"-meaning I'm 59+ and with medical problems so that no one will hire me.
Thank the gods for my VA medical.

8.62 hours per pay period, which is every two weeks. This covers personal time off, holidays, sick days, etc. I also earn 1.54 hours at that same rate that goes into an extended illness bank that acts as short term disability. I've never had to use it yet so it's up to just under 264 hours.

I've worked there coming up on 7.5 years and started earning at that rate when I hit five years. I can't remember what it was before then but it was more than sufficient.

Our employer also covered the last insurance rate hike to the tune of $96k so we wouldn't have to get hit with it.

Not bad for retail, I suppose...

Accumulate 3 weeks of vacation a year, I GET 15 days of sick pay a year, and I get 4 floating holidays a year as well (though those are earned quarterly)
There ARE advantages for working for a large corp.

I can remember every time I was moving up in corporate structure, they wanted to take away more and more of my humanity and what makes me me.

It started with the idea that it is more profitable, and it is only business.

Then it was trying to get people to backstab and be dishonest, and even mean.



So I find advantages in how I choose to live, not that I am better then anyone else, just that I did not like the way it felt like training not to feel and think. And many people in positions around me did much good while in those positions, but most of the time it was when they did good regardless of some directive or profit motive from the hierarchy or profit first.


So I am out of smokes, and have a pile of quarters as my only cash. Few prospects, but I think trusting in the systems of man is not going to be the answer, at least not the answer I found best, some might think differently.

Peace of mind and happiness even though I have less then some, but still more then some others.

And there was a 239 dollar check on the table !

:)

Seriously, so will be out among people again tonight.

Things just seem to work out, Thanks for the perfect timing!


This is not a metaphor, it was the rebate check from the gift card that was in my wallet when I was attacked a month or so ago, posted about it then. Literally it was in on the table of my house. Not a metaphor, just last time same thing happened with a 20 when doing laundry, so thought it was a neat story :)

as you go higher in a corp. However I am making sure my pathway keeps me in the scientific areas of my company..I have NO interest in climbing the ladder of management. I just want to be able to do my research better.

But the place I worked was same way, eventually they put the same clamp down on middle management, and removed me from management when they wanted me to sign something about what I believe about religion, in some religious discrimination training program. long story.


So my biggest decisions now are should I go have a beer when a little tired, (haven't been out in weeks), or wait till less tired and go out next week.

I will say it seems a bit of a mystery how a person gets a beer on a regular bases, haven't really figured that out. Its like beer two or three times a week, then month just sitting home, doesn't really work that well.

But got a few dollars, so, either go have a beer a little tired, or stay home and read for awhile, that's the toughest decisions I have nowadays.

hmmm....

And no, I am not thirsty LOL just trying to think of something to do.

Because of time of service, I get three weeks paid vacation.

I get all the major holidays except Columbus Day.

It fucking sucks. Thank god I've finally figured out that I'm going to go back to school full time later this year.

I never take all the sick time, of course.

I work for Time Warner, so we have good bennies! I'm grateful for my job.

She works for the Finnish government. We met on a train just before midsummer holiday in 2008; she was heading out to her summer home (which seemed to be quite a common ownership in Finland). When I was buying my train ticket, the woman at the ticket counter kept referring to the weekend as the holy days. I was thrilled that the solstice was considered holy - and then I realized she was just mispronouncing holiday.

I work for a nonprofit here in the U.S. We get 10 days vacation (no bonus), 6 sick days, 6 personal days and 8 holidays. I've had better in my 35 year career but consider this okay in the evolved labor market. We had to give up MLK day because it was a national day of service and we had to stay open so people who wanted to volunteer could do so. Technically, we could take time off later but that comp time system never quite works out. I'm in a stretch of 5 weeks with extra weekend work - some weekends with work on both days - and when this stretch is over, I'll comp out one Monday in my schedule and then it's back to normal.

with a state university, 8 years employment:

12 hours vacation/month (accrues, must use within 14 months)
1 free floating day per year
the 7 federal holidays
1.5-2 weeks off at Christmas
don't know how much sick time, but more than you could possibly use unless you had a terminal illness, and in that case we have a staff pool where people can "donate" their unused hours, and where people retiring can donate ALL their unused hours

10 sick days and 3 personal days
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter breaks (although we had to make up snow days this year)
Labor Day and Memorial Day
Summer break (length varies, but usually mid-June to mid-August)
Bereavement days (up to 3 days, varies)

Our sick days accumulate too, and we get money for them at retirement. We also have a sick day bank.

It's something I've been considering off and on for about seven years.

I notice that you seem positive about it, saying you have "great benefits" - you mostly only hear negatives about teaching these days.

Care to share your impressions with me? PM me if so. I am interested in teaching high school English, with a view to possibly getting certified in History, as well, in Texas (oy vey). Mainly because, despite the bureaucratic aspect of the field, I think I would really like the autonomy within the classroom; I also have several friends who are teachers and really love it; and I feel like, despite having a "good" job for these times, I'd like more security and time off work to travel. Where I live the payscale is comparable to my current trajectory. At 31, I've maxed out in higher ed admin unless I want to become an executive assistant, which I have zero interest in. I have an MA in English.

Thanks!

There are a lot of really great teachers (who hang out there) who are also very knowledgeable about current issues in education.

Of course, try and call in sick and USE those hours that you have earned and you get penalized by a point system. Wanna take day or a few hours of a day off and say "just don't pay me, I don't wanna burn thru my PTO"--forget about it, you HAVE to use it, asking them to just short your check is not an option. However, after talking to a former co worker who transferred to another unit, we have learned this is a unit specific thing, cuz her unit was Ok with that option.

I was on a bus that had broadsided a car on the way to my work, hurt my back, and as the day went on over the counter meds were not helping so I asked to leave like 4 hours early..first words out of the boss' mouth "well....do you have enough PTO?"...had to make a fool out of her and say, ya know, I was in a bus accident and am injured, do you need the police report? The ambulance report? The bus systems report..PTO has nothing to do with this, I am leaving.


Our PTO hours are to cover sick time, vacation time, and if we have to come in late/leave early.
If you need off, it is often alot easier to just call in and get dinged for an unscheduled absence cuz if you don't have 8 hours of PTO, they look at you like "no way in hell".



on edit:
We are closed for every major holiday and HAVE to use the PTO we have earned, whether we want to or not...so that alone dwindles the PTO bank especially with the winter holidays cuz they close for Tgiving and the day after. So depending on what days the winter holidays fall on, we have to use up to 32 hrs of PTO (Tgiving, day after it, Xmas Day, New Years Day). By the time January 2nd rolls around, lots of us are down to zero PTO hours as we are forced to use it.

I'm a homemaker. I'm always on call and I work all holidays.... but it's a good job if you can get. :)

I think it works out to 8 weeks and 3 days. I've worked my way up to that level over the years and now have 30 years seniority.

(But that's OK, because you never have to call the boss and lie because you need a sick day.)

Redstone

But being your own boss does have it's perks.

It most certainly isn't the pay (which is far below what someone with an MS might make in the private sector- but I hate business and corporations with a purple passion).

11 hours of vacation a month (16 days I think) which goes up to 12 if I reach 15 years. My boss get over 20 hours a month. Plus 13-15 holidays (it depends on when they fall- for holidays that fall on a weekend we do not get paid time off for on Monday, say). 8 hours of sick leave per month. I have over 700 hours accumulated and I can use it for doctors and dentists appointments too.

Before I went back to college, I was a restaurant manager for about 10 years. We had Christmas and Thanksgiving as holidays, plus 5 days of vacation...which they would not schedule so that the 5 days could be the 9 most people get with weekends off on each end....our 5 was usually no more than 7 in a row if you were lucky.

Then they took Thanksgiving away. Even though we had no increase in sales, the next year they made every single manager in the chain work on Thanksgiving Day, rather than the necessary one manager to run the place on such a slow day.

Supposed to have off one weekend a month....more like 6 weekends a year. Never any long weekends; never more than 2 days off in a row.

No sick leave...had to trade days with other managers....come back from any serious illness and work extra number of consecutive 12-13 hour days, with night shifts late at night followed by opening/day shifts over and over.

Nice job!

Personal days???? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA