Vacation policies and practices

[theresak]

In light of the good weather and our recent 3 day holiday - I was wondering what most people receive as far as vacation/sick leave/ personal time off?  

 

[spitfire78]

We have a VERY generous vacation and sick leave policy.  We accrue 2 days of vacation/personal time per month.  You cannot accrue more than 24 days at any time.  In other words, if you have 24 days in your "bank", you do not accrue any more until you take some.  I  have been here for so many years that I am not sure how many years you have to be here to get to the 2 days a month.  I think it is something like 3 to 5 years.  I also forget how many sick days we accrue per month.  I do know that we can accrue up to 90 days in our "bank" before we stop accruing them.  One time I had to have emergency surgery and would be out of work for 2 weeks.  How nice it was to be able to call my supervisor and tell her to charge me with 10 days of sick time without blinking an eye or losing any vacation time!

[jadegrniiz]

The policy at my new job is 26 days each year...  but it includes the holidays, sick time and vacation.  As you build up time with the company, your days go up to 31, then 36 days before it dies off. I don't know about rolling over into the next year...   that'd be nice  

[chris68]

Unfortunately we don't get to "bank" our time.  They changed that policy before I started working here  .  But the first year you get one week, second year 2 weeks, five years 3, weeks and I think ten years 4 weeks.



But our vacation schedule is going to change slightly since we merged, instead of getting our vacation time Jan. 1 we will receive it July 1.  I am not sure I like that idea or not.  But we will see how things work out.



Sick time we get five sick days per year and 3 personal days, personal days usually end up being used as extra vacation days.



Chris68

[sungoddesslv]

We get 14 days vacation, 4 personal days, 5 sick days and 6 holidays.  Because our business is related to pharmacies, we cannot be closed.  We are pretty much 24/7/365.



 

[kitchenwitch]

I've been here for three years, and I get 10 holidays (1 is a floater), 10 vacation days, and 5 days that can be used as sick or personal time.  In two more years I'll get 2 more vacation days....yippee...

I am grateful that they don't mind us taking unpaid time off.  So sad to be grateful for unpaid days off, but I'd rather have my sanity than a few extra dollars.

Jealous of those with more vacation...

KW

[mcbethers]

I can't remember off the top of my head what the policy for vacation days are.  When it comes to sickdays, we get 2 per quarter.  If at the end of the year we have any sickdays left, the company pays them out as regular hours. (4 sickdays left = 4 days pay).

[gertilda]

My new company has personal/vacation time accrual of 12 hours per month (total of 18 days) until 5 years of service.  7 paid holidays.  The really great thing is that even if you work part time you still accrue 6 hours per month of time.



Our department is working flex time for the summer:  9 nine hour days and every other Friday off.  Can't wait for that to start!

[whitesatin]

I have worked for the same company for thirteen years and I receive 20 paid vacation days and 10 paid holidays.



We don't receive any paid sick days, so if we, or any of our family members are sick and we miss work, we don't get paid. In addition, our company has a "Point System". If you are sick, you get a point against you. If you accumulate 12 points in a rolling calendar year, you may be terminated from employment if that is what the people in charge decide.



For the first two years of employment we receive 6 paid vacation days. From 2+ years to 5 years of employment, we receive 12 days paid vacation. From 5+ years to 10 years we receive 18 days paid vacation. From 10+ years of service we receive 20 days vacation and that's as good as it gets. I'm not complaining. My husband gets 12 paid days vacation per year and that's it. He'll never get any more than that at his current job.



WhiteSatin

[spanishgal]

At my company, we get 2 weeks during our first year if you start before June of that year, after June only one.  Then after you've been here for 5 years, you get 3 weeks.  I am more than halfway there, I've been here 3 years.  Also, we accumulate .67 sick days every month and we can accumulate this up to 60 days.  These sick days can be used for disability or maternity leave because they don't provide a paid maternity leave, you have to use your vacation/sick days

[ozbound]

White Satin--I'm glad that's working out for you but to me it sounds crazy! In fact, being up for termination due to illness, your own or your family's, sounds a point shy of discrimination to me. What about serious illnesses (such as cancer), or pregnancy? You work for the government, right? Guess I wouldn't last very long where you work (more due to complaining than actual  illness, though!)

Here we get 40 hours' paid sick leave per year, and you can carry up to 40 over into the next year. We get 2 weeks' vacation, which is accrued at 6.67 hours monthly, and 8 paid holidays (including 1 floating). You can carry over up to 80 hours of vacation time (however that is not encouraged). Exempt employees get comp. time and employees who've been here 5 years or more get 3 weeks vacation. Also they give paid time off for jury duty. All in all it's a pretty good deal.  

[energizer]

Where I work, we have pretty generous policies.

Sick days -- with pay.  No set number of days.  If you're sick, you stay home!  If you're out sick longer than 3 days, you need a doctor's release to come back to work.  If you're sick more than 2 weeks, you transfer to short term disability (no charge for this coverage) at full pay.  When I had surgery a couple of years ago, I was out from the beginning of October until the beginning of February at full pay.

Sick days -- without pay.  If you use up your total short term disability allowance (not sure how long that is -- but at least 3 months), and you don't have the optional long term disability coverage (available to all employees at a charge of $19.40 per month), then you are covered by the medical leave act (I believe it's a maximum of 12 weeks without pay).  After that, you will be placed on layoff status.  If there is a position for you when you are well enough to come back, you are again on staff.  Otherwise, you remain on layoff status until a position becomes available or you decide to get work elsewhere.

Vacation - 3 weeks from 0 to 10 years; 4 weeks from 10 to 24 years; 5 weeks for 25 and above years.

Holidays - 8 per year, plus one personal day and 1 floating holiday.

[lfctpa]

I work in the manufacturing field and during the first 2 years you get 1 week vacation after 2 years, you get 3 weeks.

Everyone gets 7 holidays, 1 personal day, and 2 (count them both on the same hand!) sick days.  HR says that these are "industry standards".  OUCH!  So much for a mental sick day!

[kohinoor]

*hhhhhm* this is one of the foreigners asking questions which you will probably think quite stupid:



what are personal days? I know the word personal and I know the word day but what are personal days?



Could you please explain?



Thanks

[nici]

KohiNoor, I would like to ask the same questions, I don't know personal days, too.



In my company I've about  30 days per year for holiday, and no sick days. If I'm sick, I stay at home, and it is like Energizer told, and after 3 days sick there is the need for a medical certificate. The sick days are paid (by the company, and after a while by the health insurance).

But for my bossies luck I haven't been ill since 2 years  .