Mandatory PTO
Schreier
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My employer is proposing the following policy and I need clarification that it is legal to do.
From December 1 through March 31 all full time personnel, with at least 6 months of services as of December 31 will be required to take a minimum amount of PTO during this period as follows:
6-24 months of services as of December 31 take 5 days PTO
Over 24 months of service as of December 31 take 7 days PTO
Personnel with insufficient earned PTO need to request in writing a PTO advance to fulfill this requirement. The request should state that the advance must be paid back by the employee only in the event of their voluntary termination prior to the next anniversary of their date of hire. This policy is to facilitate management of labor utilization during slow seasonal work periods.
From December 1 through March 31 all full time personnel, with at least 6 months of services as of December 31 will be required to take a minimum amount of PTO during this period as follows:
6-24 months of services as of December 31 take 5 days PTO
Over 24 months of service as of December 31 take 7 days PTO
Personnel with insufficient earned PTO need to request in writing a PTO advance to fulfill this requirement. The request should state that the advance must be paid back by the employee only in the event of their voluntary termination prior to the next anniversary of their date of hire. This policy is to facilitate management of labor utilization during slow seasonal work periods.
Comments
A lot of companies require that employees take a certain amount of time off each year. This serves a couple of purposes - one is everyone needs some time off. There are people (few and far between) who would never take vacation unless you made them take it and also it keeps employees from banking up extraordinary amounts of PTO and get into a "use it or lose it" situation. Or...when they resign, the company has to pay out a big chunk of money to the employee.