Vacation/Sick/Personal Accruals When On Unpaid Leave

Alex2003

What happens in your companies/organizations with accruals when employees go on unpaid leave? My new employers (District/Circuit/Probate Courts and County Administration) have a policy where vacation and some other benefits do not accrue if the employee takes unpaid leave or stays out more than 30 days. Just would like to gauge common practices. Thanks.

Leslie

Our employees do not accrue vacation or sick either, because accruals are based on hours worked on a biweekly basis - they earn their accruals each pay period. No hours worked, no accruals.

Parabeagle

Ditto. Same here.

HRQ

Same with us. No hours worked, no accrual. They DO accrue if they take paid time off, however.

Alex2003

Thanks for the responses, guys. I suspect when an employee goes on STD (ours offers up to 26 weeks of 66.7% regular pay), since it is not actual hours worked, you would not allow for vacation/sick accrual (unless some part of that STD is covered by PTO) even though it is time paid?

I used to work for a couple of companies where accruals continued even when on STD. Needless to say, those were quite generous programs.

Alex

HRQ

Our system accrues PTO each pay period a paycheck is generated for the employee. So, to answer your question, YES PTO could be accrued while an employee receives STD benefits, if they were using PTO at the same time.

This hasn't come up for us though. Employees have used PTO during the 7 day waiting period for STD but not while receiving benefits.

Hope that helps!

rachel december

On STD, we try to make the employee "whole", so as they are receiving 2/3 of pay from STD, we allow the use of sick and or PTO to make up the difference. During this period, benefits accrue.