Yes. I have to use my leave. And it has to be in 1/2 day increments.
But if it's like 10-15 minutes before the end of the day, we are allowed to ask a teacher on prep to cover our class because obviously the school doesn't want to pay for a sub for just 15 minutes. We return favors to each other, so it's okay. Very rare though.
Faculty at my college don't have PTO per se. We're expected to use our judgment in taking time off during the academic year. How this plays out is that I'm welcome to come in at 10 am, but I'll probably be up until midnight working after M goes to bed.
Post by spunkarella on Mar 18, 2016 13:08:06 GMT -5
Not a mom yet.
At my first salary job, we didn't get paid overtime and were expected to take PTO for anything more than 30 minutes. It sucked.
At my next salary, it was more flexible and I was also expected to work a lot more overtime.
Now I'm hourly and really prefer it. No worries about who is taking advantage of who, and I get paid for my ocassional overtime. I can flex time to make 80 hours in a pay period and need to take PTO for anything less than 80 hours.
Post by CrazyLucky on Mar 18, 2016 13:12:23 GMT -5
My job is somewhat tedious and I often dream of doing something else. The major perk of this job is how flexible it is. If I have to leave a little early or arrive a little late, or work from home because I volunteered to be lunch monitor, or whatever, no one blinks an eye. If I stay home with a sick kid, I do take time, but not for just an hour here or there.
I'm a fed, we're expected to account for all our hours (under or over time). So if I got to the doc for an hour and a half, I use sick leave. If I leave early, vacation leave. If I work overtime, I earn comp or credit time.
Sorry, not helpful. I'd probably talk to someone about your office time keeping policy if you think it's not equitable.
Ditto. I'm "salaried" but must report my time down to tenths of an hour.
Post by asoctoberfalls on Mar 18, 2016 13:14:59 GMT -5
I have to use PTO for that kind of stuff, which is annoying. However, my boss is cool with letting it slide sometimes. Like, sometimes I ask him to put in my time, and he "forgets."
My work just started a crazy generous policy of "less than four hours off = no PTO needs to be taken." People are being very careful not to abuse it because we don't want to lose it! Also, we all tend to work more than 40 hours usually, so it's kind of a wash.
If I leave 1 or 2 hours early for a doctor appt then yes I have to take leave or make it up. I usually try to work extra the rest of the week so I still get to 40 hours without using leave.
The minimum amount of time I can take off is 4 hours (1/2 day), so I often take off a 1/2 day for one appointment, but work for some of that time and then cluster other appointments around that. I also take one Personal Holdiay a year to do my Dr.'s appointments--annual, derm, physical, etc.
I schedule these things around patient care, teaching, and research activities and they trust me to self-regulate. It has never been an issue, but I do try to be respectful.
I recently took off a 1/2 day for Caramini's K preview day. I will use that opportunity to spend some extra time with her, although I probably could have just left for the 2 hours and then come back to work.
It does suck to have to do these types of algebra to get the in-office face time and flexibility balance correct.
Yes, I do a weekly timesheet and if my hours don't add up to 40 it won't allow me to submit it. So I have to use comp time. If you plan it right then you can use a "personal time bank" as long as it's within the same pay period. So week 1 of the pay period if I work 50 hours I can use those 10 hours in the 2nd week of the pay period. I also work for a gov't contractor so not sure if that makes a difference. But our time sheets and time charging are huge deals.
Post by shamrockshake on Mar 18, 2016 14:09:24 GMT -5
no but I work for a small company and my boss has said as long as you get your work done, he doesn't really care. I also don't abuse anything like that or I am sure his tune would change quite quickly!
I don't take pto for appointments and am a salaried employee. I doubt they will say anything after the years I spent late at the office, even pulling all nighters in the field.
Post by leonard131 on Mar 18, 2016 14:11:20 GMT -5
Nope, only if I take a full day. I typically work more then an 8 hour day and I always 100% accessible (phone and email) if I am out. I also don't expect my staff to take leave for anything less then 8 hours. I expect them to get their work done. That is it.
My new employer is very flexible. If we take less than 3 hours off, we do not have to report it. More than 3 hours it'll come out of sick/vacation leave. I do take advantage of this frequently as I am still new and don't have a huge bank of hours saved up (and am trying to save up for maternity leave this fall). That said I come in 30 minutes early every day and usually work during lunch. (So I usually work a 9.5 hour day). Plus, we have busier times where I'll have evening events that I have to attend (like in February, I had to work 5 evening events).
Post by chickadee77 on Mar 18, 2016 14:15:08 GMT -5
Not currently on salary, but when I was, nope. I would let my team members know if I would be out, and would make up the time elsewhere. Everyone else did the same thing, so I never felt bad about it. Obviously, I never abused it, and would generally try to schedule things either first thing in the morning or as late as possible in the day so I'd only be gone for a bit.
If it's more than an hour on either end, then I'll usually use my sick or vacation time. Once I had to unexpectedly leave about 90 minutes early to pick up a sick kid, but my supervisor told me I didn't need to claim any time.
It's very supervisor-dependent in my office. Some will demand you use PTO if it's more than fifteen minutes.
I rarely use sick time unless I'm gone a whole day. Even when I was pregnant I never used pto so I could bank it. I work thru lunch or come in early and make up time.
Post by mandapanda18 on Mar 18, 2016 14:53:25 GMT -5
Um no... It doesn't work both ways. A salaried employee is expected to get their assigned work completed without regard to the number of hours it takes. If I come to the office and then have to leave an hour after I am there to pick up a sick kid, I'm paid for the entire day. I also don't get compensated for the extra hours I put in at year end.
Post by steamboat185 on Mar 18, 2016 14:58:26 GMT -5
As long as it is under 4 hours I don't have to put in PTO. I have worked other places where they were more strict, but it's one of the things I like about my current employer.
Um no... It doesn't work both ways. A salaried employee is expected to get their assigned work completed without regard to the number of hours it takes. If I come to the office and then have to leave an hour after I am there to pick up a sick kid, I'm paid for the entire day. I also don't get compensated for the extra hours I put in at year end.
This is exactly how it was explained to me too, and now they have changed course.
I get docked, but if it's a short amount of time (1 hours or less-ish), I can sometimes say that I'm making up the time later this week or whatever. It used to be worse--they used to dock me for everything and they had some bullshit about how the smallest increment of time they could dock via their system was half a day, so I'd get half a day taken away even if I had to come in 1 hour late for an appointment. I only get 6 days total of vacation/sick/whatever leave per year, so this was crazy! Luckily, my workday is not too crazy (8:30-4) and I get a million school holidays and breaks (I've been off this entire week for Spring Break, for example), so I can usually schedule things around those.
I never had to track my hours when I was at a salaried position (in the UK). It was just sort of expected that time taken for medical appointments would be made up later. I would occasionally just WFH the days I had an appointment in the middle of the day, which meant I wasn't missing as much work.
My management is flexible since most of us work more than 40/weekly already. I do try and make sure it all equates to 40 by the end of the week. When I was home taking care of two sick kids and a sick husband I few weeks ago, we called it WFH but really I was sporadically in my email during the day and then did a few hours of work each night. I was at home for three days but only took 11 hours PTO. For appts, I try to schedule close to the end or beginning of my day.