• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Eh, doesn’t those depend on how often I get sick? That’s the idea, no? A doctor signs me off being unable to work?

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      No. If you have paid time off it is part of your compensation package. A better way to look at it is if you work 52 weeks a year and your employment includes a week of PTO, then you are effectively due 53 weeks of pay and any time you take off is subtracted from that number.

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        1 year ago

        Where I work (not California) this time is “use it or lose it” so no. Our comp is 52 weeks a year and we can take up to 3 weeks (not consecutive) of that off for whatever if scheduled or unscheduled for sickness. 1 week if you are new.

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          1 year ago

          Still yes. The point is that PTO is part of your compensation package. If you don’t use it you are not receiving that compensation. Put it another way: if part of your compensation package is a company vehicle (just like everyone else in the company) but you work from home, are you going to consider that fair compensation?