does your work treat personal days differently than vac days?

[newholiday]

Have a personal day I need to take. I know it cant be rolled over to next yr. Does your work treat personal days any differently than vaca days?

 

[Bob Slydell]

We can roll over personal days, but not vacation days.

 

[tkyes]

It's all the same for us. If you take a sick day, it's 8 hours off of your vacation time.

 

[oogieboogie]

It's all the same. We get PTOs - Paid Time Off. How you use it is up to you - we can use it all as sick days, all as vacation. It also goes by halves, so we can take 1/2 day off and it'll be counted as 1/2 PTO.

We can carry over 3 PTO days into the next year.

 

[snoopy]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
We can roll over personal days, but not vacation days.

We're just the opposite. I have 5 personal days left I have to use or I lose them. Shouldn't be hard to do though.

 

[Eeyore1954]

We have PTO (sick time, personal time, vacation) all rolled into 1 account. We can't take 1/2 days, except for 2 summer 1/2 days HR "gives" each year (at least so far). PTO has to be taken in whole days. We can roll over a max of 5 PTO a year.

 

[chesirechik]

I have it pretty nice. We just have vacation time. I've been here 4 years, I have three weeks. You can roll over a week each year.

We have unlimited sick days. No "personal" days.

 

[Trish Bessette]

I get 3 personal days each year that have to be used during the year or you lose them.

I get 20 vacation days each year that can be rolled over.

I have something like 230 sick days that I can use that just keep accumulating.

Plus the standard holiday days off.

My company is pretty good I think!

 

[Chicago526]

My company is very good about time off!

I've been here 5 years, and I get 17 vacation days a year (under 5 you get 12), they cannot be rolled over though. I also get 12 sick days a year that are rolled over. We get 2 personal days per year that are taken out of our sick day balance.

Sick days can be used if a child, parent, spouse, or domestic partner are sick. Personal can be for any reason, and of course you can use vacation however you wish, as long as your supervisor approves the days off that you want, which is hardly ever an issue as long as someone else isn't already on vacation at that time.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Originally posted by snoopy
We're just the opposite. I have 5 personal days left I have to use or I lose them. Shouldn't be hard to do though.

That's the way my old company was -- we could roll over up to 1/2 of our yearly vacation days, but not roll over personal days.

We also couldn't use more than one personal day at a time, nor could we use a personal day at the beginning or end of a longer vacation. It was only allowed to be used literally to take one day off for whatever reason.

 

[Maleficent13]

Originally posted by Eeyore1954
We have PTO (sick time, personal time, vacation) all rolled into 1 account. We can't take 1/2 days, except for 2 summer 1/2 days HR "gives" each year (at least so far). PTO has to be taken in whole days. We can roll over a max of 5 PTO a year.

Just curious - what do you do if you have an appointment that would only take an hour or two? Do you have to take the whole day off in order to be paid for that time?

 

[floridafam]

DH gets 15 vaca days, 10 sick days and 2 floating holidays.


They are all considered different things.

When it was a different company, everything was in the same pool-all holidays, sick, vaca, etc. For some reason, it seems like he had more time this way.

He gets paid for unused days at the end of the year.

 

[oogieboogie]

Originally posted by Maleficent13
Just curious - what do you do if you have an appointment that would only take an hour or two? Do you have to take the whole day off in order to be paid for that time?

Here, we wouldn't mark anything down. We're on the honor system as far as that goes. I usually take 1/2 PTO if I know something will take me more than 3 hrs, otherwise I'll just make it up during the week (no lunch breaks, coming in on Saturday, etc).

 

[aprincessmom]

Vacation time -- Can be accrued up to 160 hours. At that point no further time can accrue and you are required to take time off (at least 3 consecutive days) so you can begin to accrue time again. You can roll over the time each year but you can never go over 160 hours. You can take vacation time by the hour. Accruals based on date of hire.

Personal days -- We get two (16 hours) and they are use it or lose it. They must be taken in 8 hour increments. Re-sets on Jan. 1

Sick time -- Seven days per year. Can be used for personal illness or to cover illness of spouse or children. No roll over from year to year. When you use up all your sick time (unless short term disability), you must use vacation time or take unpaid leave time -- your choice. If you have a short term disability situation -- kicks in after 5 consecutive sick days with doctor note giving specifics on illness and needed recovery days -- your sick time goes back into your sick bank for the year. Re-sets on Jan 1.

 

[NMAmy]

No personal days. We get vacation time and sick leave (different accounts). Up to half of your sick time can be used for family care (this came in so handy when my dad was dying). 1 week bereavement time for a family member.

All leave rolls over from year to year--there is a limit for vacation time but I haven't reached it yet so I'm not sure what it is!

 

[believe]

Personal days can not be rolled over or split into 1/2 days, they have to be taken as full days.

 

[CEDmom]

We can rollover vacation with prior approval. Personal days are lost if not used. Sick days are completely seperate and not taken from vacation/personal days. I honestly don't even know how much sick time I can take before it becomes a problem because I'm rarely sick. If DD is sick I take that as a personal or vacation day.

 

[EsmeraldaX]

Personal days can't be rolled over.

Personal days can be called in the same day, while it is preferred that vacation days be scheduled at least a day or two in advance.

Although, my workplace is pretty lenient about the rules.

~Sheri

 

[tandrjohn]

Different, and neither can be rolled over.

 

[Eeyore1954]

Originally posted by Maleficent13
Just curious - what do you do if you have an appointment that would only take an hour or two? Do you have to take the whole day off in order to be paid for that time?

D'oh! I knew I forgot to explain something.

We can take time off for doctor/dental appt. during the day as paid time off, but it is not counted against our PTO pool. Each manager has discretion regarding how much time off to allow for these. We code them on our time reports as "Paid Absence."

Our company is pretty generous -- we start with 20 PTO days and can "purchase" up to 3 extra annually. After 5 years, they add on 5 more PTO and 5 more after that for each 5 years of service. I think it maxes out around 40 PTO days annually.