So I need to leave 30 mins early today. I am salaried so it should not be a big deal right? Wrong. I know my boss will want me to use vacay time for it. Fine I still have 90 hours use or loose by the end of the yr.
So I go into the the time keeping system to deduct .5 from my vacy balance. I got an error msg saying vacation must be deducted in 1 hr increments. I am so annoyed.
Anyway, what increments are you ladies allowed to take vacation in. I have never heard of 1 hour increments before. All my other jobs we could do .25, .5, .75 or 1.
I'm salary. When I leave early, call-in sick, etc I still get paid for 8 hours per day. I'll often come in early or stay over another day to make it up, so I don't get the side eye. That said, there is no way to accrue vacation time here. I get two weeks per year and I've been here 5.5 years, so I'd throw an all out tantrum if I had to use time whenever I needed to leave early or something.
I have never, ever had to use vacation time for leaving early or coming in late by 30 minutes. I always just make it up the day before, of, or after. Your boss sounds like a biatch.
I don't bother with small increments, but our smallest vacation/sick increment is a half day.
That matters more to the non-legal staff (who have 9-5 like hours) than to lawyers though because my hours only really matter by yearly billable hour requirement. How much vacation time I've taken will only ever matter really for the year I leave the firm (and can cash out unused time from that year).
Post by explorer2001 on Oct 3, 2012 15:08:52 GMT -5
To answer the question asked: whatever increments I want.
More realistically: we can make up hours missed one day on any other day in the same week with no issue. The only time this gets sticky is if it crosses monthly cut offs. Generally if you aren't going to be in the office it goes on the calendar so people aren't looking for you. Questions get asked if you are doing something weird or your work isn't getting done, but otherwise we are expected to behave like professionals and are treated as such.
My PTO bank is over 100 hrs right now. They don't start limiting roll over until 500 hours or something.
Post by dragonfly08 on Oct 3, 2012 15:20:15 GMT -5
When I was working, I didn't really have sick/vacation time. If I had to miss a class I had to find coverage. Cancelling was a last resort that was really frowned on.
DH works a flex schedule, so as long as he puts in his 40 hrs/week, is there during the core hours (10-3, I think) most of the time, and doesn't cross pay periods, he can leave early today and make it up tomorrow, etc. And even with the "core" time, as long as he doesn't have a meeting and preferably has given his boss a heads up he's fine.
I think it's 0.5. I'm not really sure since I never needed to use that little of vacation time. I always try to make up the time if I need to leave early or come in late.
I know we go down to an hour for sure, but not sure if it goes smaller than that because I've never tried to enter a time that small. Things are flexible enough around here that if you need to leave 30 minutes early, you just leave 30 minutes early and it's a give you make it up later (or possibly you already have).
Yikes, that's crazy. We can't take vacation in anything less than half day (3.5hrs since we're on a 35hr work week.) But anytime within a pay period we can flex time as long as it adds to 70 for the pay period and you get your work done.