Would you use all of your sick days if you are leaving a job?

[FireDancer]

You are either a troll or one of the biggest hypocrites I've ran across. You should really get your stories straight before posting.

I'm touching my nose and pointing at you.

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

Carry over sick leave? I remember those days. Small employers frequently don't even GIVE sick leave, and I don't know of any personally that let you accumulate it. If you weren't sick, then you didn't need that sick leave. Great! Welcome to work, that's your desk, sit down and stay there.

Thankfully, mine still does. It caps off at 9 weeks, I believe. I have several weeks of sick available and went into my 5th year, so I now get 3 weeks vacation. This year I did not elect to pay for STD...figured I have enough paid time off available to cover what I needed (barring sever trauma)! I guess this is where I say 'knock on wood'!

But you're correct - employers, especially smaller companies, are not in a position to offer but the bare minimum of benefits, if any at all.

We get 6 sick days annually, we can carry over up to 96 hours, but I never end up having any or at the very least maybe 1. The majority of our employees work in hospitals and we are going to get sick. If we run out of sick time, we can use vacation hours or PTO if we have any.

I have never seen one company so generous with time off as ours is. In the last 2 years, I haven't been able to take much of my vacation time, and in fact, I just lost 40 hours, because I could only carry over 60 hours, but I was also receiving an additional 120.

 

[lillygator]

so that is what happened...I was just looking for that thread!!!

 

[DebbieB]

In regards to retiring early with PTO, that would be pretty hard to do here. We do have a maximum number of PTO days (actually we do hours not days so we can take a hour of PTO if we want to leave early or come in late) we can roll from year to year. We don't lose them but we do have to cash them out at the end of the year.

I feel PTO is a much better option not only for the employee but for the employer. When I started here we were on a traditional time off schedule with separate sick days and there was a group of us that put together the PTO idea and presented it to the board. Not only do the employees get all the time they are entitled to but there is a lower chance of last minute call offs if someone wants to not lose a sick day. A lot of people, whether you think it is right or not, will call off as sick to not lose the days. This can cause staffing problems. With PTO they can just let you know in advance they are taking the planned day and you can schedule around it. Everyone wins.

My company has PTO, you can only carry over 5 days. If you have more than that left, you lose them. You have to use the carry over days first the following year, so you can't keep accumulating.

If you leave part way through the year, they pro-rate the days. So if you have 30 days and leave on 7/1, you only earned 15 and will only be paid for less than that (not sure what happens if you already took more).

I rarely call off sick, so I like the PTO days. I ended up with 8 more days. We didn't have a set number of sick days but you were disciplined if you went over 4 or 5 occurrences in a year. If you are sick, it goes to short term disability after 5 days (and is then managed by them).

 

[luvsJack]

We get a generous number of personal and medical leave days each year, plus lots of holidays, spring break, Christmas break, a week at Thanksgiving, etc. So very few days are used by most people.

Medical leave can be banked and used in your retirement. Personal days do not. Those that leave here going to another position with the state tend to leave with their medical leave so that it goes with their retirement. Those that leave NOT going to another position with the state tend to use their before they leave. Personal days are always used before they leave.

When their resignation is turned in someone will contact them about how much time they have banked and what they want to do with it so that it is documented if they plan to take it.