Poll of the Day > How many days paid time off do you get annually and how is it awarded?

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I get 28 days and move to 33 days after 3 years of service. That is my entire paid time bank for holidays, vacation, and sick. I earn it per pay period.

Haven't taken a non-mandatory day off work for nearly almost a year now, wanted to make sure if I got sick I could cover a week or two out. Finally glad to be able to be able to see family again.

It depends. I forget how much I normally get. But for every hour over 40 I work a week, I can bank them for more time off. Because Ive been in for so long, I have more time off starting than other people. I even have more starting than some people who have been in for a while when switching over.
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LinkPizza posted...

It depends. I forget how much I normally get. But for every hour over 40 I work a week, I can bank them for more time off. Because Ive been in for so long, I have more time off starting than other people. I even have more starting than some people who have been in for a while when switching over.

Learning about different policies makes me want to switch to something like that. My dad has a similar 40h with banking. It seems so advantageous to a good lifestyle.

It's "unlimited" but has to be approved by your boss. (This isn't as nice at it may sound in some ways because you don't accrue it and so if you quit you don't get any money for your unused vacation time) My boss gave me a guideline of about 5 work weeks off per year max

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27 days off plus two floating holidays

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I don't. I'm a freelancer. If I want "vacation", then that means that during some month, I'll have to work two times more than usual.

Well... that being said, that's not really true. I guess, during Christmas period is where I get my real vacation time, because 90 percent of the time I'll get very few projects to work with.

AnnoyedCops posted...

It's "unlimited" but has to be approved by your boss. (This isn't as nice at it may sound in some ways because you don't accrue it and so if you quit you don't get any money for your unused vacation time) My boss gave me a guideline of about 5 work weeks off per year max

My company has a way of cheating people out of their earned PTO if they quit.

GNS1991 posted...

I don't. I'm a freelancer. If I want "vacation", then that means that during some month, I'll have to work two times more than usual.

Well... that being said, that's not really true. I guess, during Christmas period is where I get my real vacation time, because 90 percent of the time I'll get very few projects to work with.

Im interested in freelancers, like how they started and what they do and finding clients. It sounds like a lot of stress. Im *eventually* going the locum route if I stay, which isnt really freelance but it is temporary gigs.

hypnox posted...

27 days off plus two floating holidays

never heard of a floating holiday.

Unemployed at the moment. Most of the jobs i've had didn't do paid time off.

The jobs i've had that did have it awarded it based on how many years you were there. You got some sick days after a few months, but zero vacation days in your first year. Then after a year, it bumped up to a week plus sick days. Earning a second vacation week took something stupid like 5 years and never exceeded 3 or 4 weeks. They didnt roll over year to year. I never stayed at any of those places more than a year though, it was just factory work. My grandmother died while I was working at one and I did get 3 paid days off to go to her funeral which didn't count against my sick days. I think those are legally required though and only apply to certain relatives.

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blu posted...

Im interested in freelancers, like how they started and what they do and finding clients. It sounds like a lot of stress. Im *eventually* going the locum route if I stay, which isnt really freelance but it is temporary gigs.

In my case, I'm an employee, an employer and an accountant all in one (well, in the beginning this was it), cause you need to find clients yourself and establish the permanent client base for yourself. Then, do the work within the agreed timeframe. And keep, and maintain the financial records of your transactions, which you will then submit when the time comes for tax returns. Afterwards, if you accomplish this (many don't), you may cross off the employer thing from your functions, cause you have a steady flow of work offers (steady flow, i.e., at least 10 permanent clients, who offer large (relatively) projects for you to do), so you do not *need* to find anymore clients.

As for how I started. Eh... it was project: search for a job during summer, cause I did not have anything better to do. No firms were hiring, so I decided to look up local freelancing laws, found-out that all you need is a free-of-charge permit from the state authority, got it and started offering my services on help wanted adds on internet sites. Many months later, had first few real clients, then, onwards the client base grew. Keep in mind, not everyone are so lucky. Plus, many potential clients will say: "well, why should I pay you X when I have people working for peanuts" (literally, cause some of them even had the audacity to write that they've got people working for them on a rate of 1.00 EUR).

Frankly, if I woudn't have been such an idiot many years ago, would have studied better in school, instead, would have chosen dentistry or IT as a carrier. Oh, well...

15 paid vacation days off (goes up to 20 next year)
10 paid government stat holidays (I think it's 10)
10 paid sick days (though I generally don't use them all)

The vacation and sick days I'm given in full up front at the start of the year. If I use them and leave before I technically earn them, the difference will be deducted off my final pay. Stat holidays are just fixed days off and I just get paid for them.

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About 80 hours of vacation, 40 of holiday (can be used whenever), Thanksgiving and Xmas pay out separate. You get an additional 40 hours after 5 years or something. It accrues based off of hours worked, the amounts listed above are for 40 hour work weeks, technically if you got tons of overtime you could earn more, if you work less, you accrue less.

Sick days accrue differently, I'm pretty sure I have like 4 weeks of sick days.
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Zangulus posted...

I knew multiple people who lost vacation time because they hit the limit and then were denied time off.

Every single year my mom has this issue. She gets something ridiculous like 7 weeks of vacation I think. But her department is small, only has like 4 people. And somehow despite being there for like 20 years, she's pretty much at the bottom for seniority. So the people above her have 8 or 9 weeks of holidays. And they get first dibs for time off. One of them takes every Monday and Friday off for the entire summer, so anyone else asking for a week off gets denied, because someone already has Monday/Friday off. No one wants to take Tuesday-thursday off, so the vacation time just builds up.

However, they have to use the previous years vacation time by end of March, Union rules. So every February/March my mom ends up taking basically the entire month off because she has to use it up. And they end up short handed because the other people in the department have to do the same thing.

I remember them denying my mom the day off for my convocation, and my mom just told them "that's fine, but I'm not showing up so I suggest you find someone to cover my shift" lol.

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3 weeks of PTO, which includes vacation, sick, personal holiday, etc. Goes up to 4 weeks after 5 years, and 5 weeks after 20 years. Also get 6 paid holidays (New Years, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).

Doesn't seem like a lot, but I almost never use it all before the end of the year unless I take the last 2 weeks off in December.

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