Does your company have rules on when you can take PTO?

[Gunslinger08]

Does your company have rules on when you can take PTO? For example, you must use half of your PTO before July 1st? Something else?

 

[HybridSquirrel]

when i used to work at the dealership, the only rule was you cant take it during busy weekends, sale weekends, or special events

 

[FoBoT]

only that you can only carry over a certain amount from one fiscal year to the next, i think it is 240 hours (6 weeks)
if you reach that much and fail to use it, you lose it

otherwise as long as your manager approves, you can use it anytime

 

[oddyager]

only that you can only carry over a certain amount from one fiscal year to the next, i think it is 240 hours (6 weeks)
if you reach that much and fail to use it, you lose it

otherwise as long as your manager approves, you can use it anytime

Wow, that's very generous. Is this private or public? The company I work for now and companies I've worked for in the past would only allow an employee 5 days carryover.

 

[Rubycon]

Safety goggles on before hitting PTO! :hmm:

 

[Tremulant]

only that you can only carry over a certain amount from one fiscal year to the next, i think it is 240 hours (6 weeks)
if you reach that much and fail to use it, you lose it

otherwise as long as your manager approves, you can use it anytime

My company is similar. We can carry over up to twice the annual PTO limit and the drop date is Dec. 31, instead of the end of fiscal year.

Also, we have a 'floating holiday' that is lost at the end of the year if it is not used.

EDIT: Our PTO limits scale based on how long you've worked here. I'm eligible for 20 days (160 hours) of PTO per year.

 

[middlehead]

The only limit I can think of is a maximum cap on stored PTO.

 

[Hoober]

Only in that we're forced to take the 3 days during Christmas that we don't otherwise get off as PTO. It's deducted from our total available time.

Ticks me off.

"Here's xxx amount of time off. Oh, but you have to spend 24 hours of it at Christmas so that the company doesn't have as large a liability to pay PTO when somebody leaves the company."

"Merry Christmas."

"Oh, and there still won't be any merit increases despite the fact that the company made money."

 

[apac]

Generally no, but in the last year we've had several periods where we've been forced to take PTO for fiscal reasons. This is the second year we have a 4 day holiday shutdown between xmas and new years, and we had to take 6 days during FYQ4 last year.

 

[lykaon78]

At my company exempt associates must use or lose their PTO in the calender year it is given.
Non-exempts (hourly) can carry over 5 days and be paid out for another 5.

Beyond that we limit the number of people that can be scheduled out on any given day and strictly limit the number of people out during peak volumes.

 

[nageov3t]

it varies a bit from department to department, but generally, the only rules are that all requests have to be submitted/approved 2+ weeks in advance and all the support departments strongly, strongly discourage having 2 people off on vacation at the same time, especially if they work the same shifts, so that works on a first come, first serve basis.

 

[dabuddha]

only that you can only carry over a certain amount from one fiscal year to the next, i think it is 240 hours (6 weeks)
if you reach that much and fail to use it, you lose it

otherwise as long as your manager approves, you can use it anytime

This for me as well. Federal govt here.

 

[gophins72]

my company allows no carryover, though sometimes they will ask you to work over the holidays and in return let you use what would have been your vacation time in the upcoming month or two.

other than that you can use it whenever, providing you give notice ahead of time (like a week or so).