Holidays PTO Survey: Carried Over PTO
Can paid time-off days be carried over from one year to the next? Response Percent Response Count Yes 77.8% 392 No 22.2% 112 Previous Next
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Holidays PTO Survey: Maximum PTO Bank
What is the maximum number of days that can be accumulated in your organization’s paid time-off plan? 1-9 days 10-19 days 20-29 days 30-59 days 60-89 days 90+ days No limit Exempt Employees 30 (6%) 61 (12%) 140 (28%) 154 (31%) 25 (5%) 32 (6.4%) 41 (8.2%) Nonexempt Employees 31 (6%) 62 (12.4%) 145 […]
Holidays PTO Survey: PTO Days Per Year
How many paid time-off days are allowed per year for employees with 5 years of tenure? Check one for each employee type. 1-5 days 6-10 days 11-19 days 20-24 days 25+ days Exempt Employees 15 (3%) 50 (9.9%) 189 (37.5%) 152 (30.2%) 80 (15.9%) Nonexempt Employees 20 (4%) 49 (9.7%) 200 (39.7%) 158 (31.3%) […]
Holidays PTO Survey: Leave Types Included in PTO Plan
Does your company offer a Paid Time Off (PTO) plan which provides a bank of days that may be used at the employees’ discretion for vacation, sick time, personal time, holidays, etc.? Response Percent Response Count Yes 58.2% 524 No 41.8% 377 Of those who Have a PTO Program: Which items are included […]
Who’s Offering What for Holidays and PTO? Survey Results Reveal All
Our recent survey on paid time off reveals that more and more organizations are going the PTO route for offering time off. For holidays, over 90% of respondents are offering New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving, and 81% will offer the Monday after Christmas. Fifty-eight percent of responding companies have […]
Sudden discovery—Employee on FMLA Wasn’t Doing the Job
Yesterday’s Advisor answered three tricky “during leave” FMLA questions. Today, the challenge of suddenly discovered performance issues, plus an introduction to the book users call “The FMLA Bible.” Note: Today’s questions and answers are adapted from an HR Hero publication, Mastering HR: FMLA. What if we discover a previously unknown performance issue while an employee […]
Can Benefits Bills Distract Congress from Debt Acrimony?
This summer, the U.S. House and Senate took a break from its floundering over debt and deficits to consider a few measures affecting employee benefits. Perhaps it was refreshing, spending at least a little time thinking about something else. Let’s take a look at the latest House and Senate bills that could affect employee benefits. […]
The FLSA Won’t Help You Because You Don’t Work Here
If you find out during the hiring process that an applicant blew the FLSA whistle on his or her former employer, you can probably pull the plug on that applicant, EVEN if you already sent him or her an offer letter (at least in the 4th Circuit). The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled […]
Appeals Court Holds Part of Health Care Reform Law Unconstitutional
On Friday, August 12, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta held 2-1 that the individual health insurance mandate provision found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the comprehensive health care reform legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law in March 2010, is unconstitutional. More specifically, the court found […]
Catch Me If You Can Compensation? DOL Says ‘I Caught You’
“There is a dramatic increase in wage and hour lawsuits,” says Contacos-Sawyer (and the recent Wal-Mart decision probably means an even greater increase). At her presentation at the recent World at Work Total Rewards Conference in San Diego, Contacos-Sawyer, president of HR Consultants, Inc., was joined by colleagues Polly Wright and Judith Mickey. What About […]