changing vacation policy to accrual method
Trish
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Our current policy states that vacation and sick time is earned as you work, but to save on confusion, our employees paychecks show the bank amount in full at the first of the year. A dilemma occurs when an employee terminates during the year and has overspent their bank. We would like to make two changes:
1. change the vacation year to anniversary year from calendar year. problem we foresee is calculating cutoffs. is there a basic formula?
2. a group of 5 people who have worked here >10 years had to work an entire year before earning vacation. about 8 years ago, the administrator changed the policy to allow new employees paid time off (vacation) during their first year. it is earned during the year worked. we would like to change over to the accrual method, however, this would mean that employees working here many years would not get a vacation for a year. This is a high-volume, high-stress work place. Would it be better to offer a week off as a bonus for one year to all, just to get everyone on the same track? even with this, we still foresee hard feelings when people already at 3 weeks per year are told they have only one paid week off this year. what would be fair to the handful that originally did have to wait the first year they worked??? Thanks for any suggestions.
1. change the vacation year to anniversary year from calendar year. problem we foresee is calculating cutoffs. is there a basic formula?
2. a group of 5 people who have worked here >10 years had to work an entire year before earning vacation. about 8 years ago, the administrator changed the policy to allow new employees paid time off (vacation) during their first year. it is earned during the year worked. we would like to change over to the accrual method, however, this would mean that employees working here many years would not get a vacation for a year. This is a high-volume, high-stress work place. Would it be better to offer a week off as a bonus for one year to all, just to get everyone on the same track? even with this, we still foresee hard feelings when people already at 3 weeks per year are told they have only one paid week off this year. what would be fair to the handful that originally did have to wait the first year they worked??? Thanks for any suggestions.
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Secondly, we allow employees two weeks vacation after a year of service. New employees can actually take up to 40 hours after six months of employment but if they choose this option, they are actually borrowing that time from the 80 hours they would receive on their 1st anniversary. Hope this helps and I haven't managed to confuse you or misunderstand what you are asking.