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Sick days don't count as holidays. If you get sick on holiday you get those vacation days back.
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It has its pros and cons, and it depends on your employer. Your employer generally has to approve PTO even on a PTO plan that tracks hours. If you don't trust your employer to honor a reasonable PTO policy - unlimited or otherwise - then you should get a new job because there's probably lots of other problems. I've been able to take blocks as long a 3 weeks off at an employer with an unlimited PTO policy, because I w…
> Your employer generally has to approve PTO even on a PTO plan that tracks hours They don't have to, they choose to. We track days of PTO where I work and there's no approval process. You take the days you want to take and that's that. It's the ideal way to do it IMO.
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It has its pros and cons, and it depends on your employer. Your employer generally has to approve PTO even on a PTO plan that tracks hours. If you don't trust your employer to honor a reasonable PTO policy - unlimited or otherwise - then you should get a new job because there's probably lots of other problems. I've been able to take blocks as long a 3 weeks off at an employer with an unlimited PTO policy, because I w…
> Your employer generally has to approve PTO even on a PTO plan that tracks hours They don't have to, they choose to. We track days of PTO where I work and there's no approval process. You take the days you want to take and that's that. It's the ideal way to do it IMO.
What I meant was that the employer has a policy where your manager or some other authority has to approve the PTO.
To your point this is a choice.
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Yep, unlimited PTO is a scam. But, to make lemonade, I make sure to take 4-5 weeks of PTO per year, EVERY year. That way, it's actually a perk/advantageous over traditional PTO packages.
How do you successfully advocate for that? These experiences blow my mind - I have managed to take 4-5 weeks of PTO, total, over the course of a decade in my career at "unlimited PTO" startups due to pretty much always being mission critical, and even those took some real pushing.
It is a part of my compensation package/job offer. Therefore I am entitled to it as much as I am entitled to my pay check.
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A company policy requiring large blocks of time off strikes me as a really good idea for companies that can afford it. The employees get time to decompress and destress thus making them more productive and creative. And the company is given a chance to figure out what it takes to cover your job if you were to leave. Like finding out that no one else has credentials to that one ultra important service that only has to…
It's a common policy for financial firms. It's hard to cover fraud when you're on vacation
The US is an outlier with very little paid vacation. It seems that some people get no paid vacation weeks at all.
Another complicating factor is "unlimited vacation". I have it at my new gig and I think I probably have _less_ recourse than a person with an explicit "4 weeks of PTO" in their employment contract. That being said, the company is really chill and every seems to be taking a good amount of vacation (and I told my manager I am targeting 5 weeks off per year and he said that is reasonable).
I have 30 days of vacation in my contract and I am free to use them whenever I want. It is also backed with the legal right to 4 weeks of consecutive vacation during Jun-Aug, a right that the employer cannot deny. Of course I live in Scandinavia. Sweden to be precise.
The only "rule" around vacation is the longer the vacation the more notice you _should_ give. I've had colleagues take 5-6 weeks off, but they let the team know 4-5 months in advance so it wasn't a big deal and we could work around it.
Asserting your rights can have social consequences, of course, but if you need to assert your rights... the real benefit of the law is setting the norms of how people behave.
I have 30 days of vacation in my contract and I am free to use them whenever I want. It is also backed with the legal right to 4 weeks of consecutive vacation during Jun-Aug, a right that the employer cannot deny. Of course I live in Scandinavia. Sweden to be precise.
Most Norwegians take about 4 weeks of vacation during July.
[0]: https://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/en/working-conditions/holiday...