Sick time

GLC

If an employee has used up all of their sick time, can we legally take their vacation time if we have a written rule in a policy handbook?

NeedCoffee

I'm not sure on this, but I believe if you have a policy that forces paid time off to be used for absences, then yes, you can.

Dutch2

We do not force our ee's to use vacation. But, if the ee is out due to illness and they have no sick time, then they can use vacation time to make up the missed income or they be off without pay.

joannie

We handle same as Dutch.

dynamite9551

We solved this dilemma by stating that time off away from work must be covered by available or sick or vacation; so if no sick available the time off would come from vacation.

we ran into this when employees would try and use "no pay" to cover their absence. our thoughts are if they were scheduled to work and are absent, using "no pay" is not an option. Time away must be covered when they have vacation/sick time on the books.

mbeam

We combined the two (vacation and sick) and have only one bank and call it PTO.

davids

We require employees to exhaust their paid leave banks before going on leave without pay. So, if an employee is absent due to illness, and has exhausted all sick leave, he/she would need to use vacation leave to cover the absence.