Questions for Hourly Employees

[SweetPotato]

I’m currently evaluating our leave, benefits, etc.

If you’re an hourly employee what is your paid time off, vacation, etc like?

Any difference for part time employees?

[GhoatMonket]

Our PTO is determined by length of service. First year is pro-rated up to 2 weeks, then the next years are based on your years of service Jan 1. 1 year is 2 weeks. An additional day is added each year until you max out at 4 weeks. Up to an additional 40 hours can be bought with supervisor approval.

Part time gets nothing (all our part time are interns).

[xtine22]

In my current company. I have been hourly and now salary, in 2 different locations(states) and jobs. I have the same vacation time (3 weeks) and 3 floating holidays.

[robot]

As a part time employee I wasn’t eligible for PTO or vacation time. I only earned sick time, as required by our state law.

[chickenonsunday]

Typically, where I work, part time employees don't have PTO because they are temporary employees. If they are a part time/full employee they accrue PTO at a lesser rate than full time employees.

We receive 12 paid holidays and earn 8 hours per month during 1-5 years of service. That amount increases to 11.5 hours per month from 6-10 year service. I think the next increase is at 11 years of service but not totally sure since I might leave this job by then. We accrue 8 hours of sick time per month and that amount never increases.

[jorkzy]

I'm union paid hourly and have been here for almost 15 years. I accrue the equivalent of 25 days of vacation yearly (7.4 hours per biweekly paycheque, not that I counted), and I think about 2 hours of sick time accrued per paycheque. Not sure about sick because I have hundreds of hours in my sick bank and will never use them all.

Vac hours are determined by length of service. Part time is pro rated to their hours.

[gimmeaQ]

I am currently a contractor and have no PTO. Benefits are available through my agency after a certain number of weeks, with a minimum for hours worked in order to sustain eligibility.

[leahcar]

We do not differentiate between time off. Everything is either PTO or holiday. Our FT employees start with 2 weeks of PTO that accrues over the year. Our PT employees earn PTO at their equivalent number of hours (Employee working 30 hours would accrue 75% of the PTO that the FT employee gets, etc). Once you hit 4 years, you get an extra week as a FT employee.

Temporary employees do not get PTO, etc.

[tmg]

Our PTO is also based on length of service, and is the same for full time hourly and salary employees. You start at 16 days/year, and work up to 25 days/year, which is the max.

Part time PTO is earned based on FTE. 0.8 staff get 0.8 of full time PTO rates, etc.

[angelashly]

I just changed over from hourly a couple months ago.

For hourly here we get vacation after 1 year. At the 1 year mark 80 hours is dumped into our bank and we start accruing each pay X amount of hours (this is based on job classification and FT/PT). Sick is accrued every pay from the beginning. We also get 24 personal hours in a separate bank that is taken from your sick time. These hours unlike vacation and sick do not roll over each year.

For health benefits we get them at FT or PT, but I believe PT pay more.

[meggriffin]

Hourly and salary accrue at the same rates for us, under 5 years of service you get 2 weeks PTO and a week of sick. We also get 10 paid holidays.

Once you hit 5 years of service you get an additional week of PTO and again at 10 years. The accrual for sick leave never changes.

[leo91]

Full time employees start out with 3 weeks PTO, and you gain an extra week every 5 years you are here. I've been here 6 years and have 4 weeks PTO. Our paid time off includes sick time, vacation, etc. So you start off with 3 weeks to do as you please.

Part time employees don't really get any benefits

[billyhorrible]

Feb 6, 2018 10:09:45 GMT -6 gimmeaQ said:

I am currently a contractor and have no PTO. Benefits are available through my agency after a certain number of weeks, with a minimum for hours worked in order to sustain eligibility.

I was hourly from 2012- April of last year. We had no PTO/vacation, just paid holidays. We could get health insurance, but it was insanely expensive.

I don't think there were any part time employees. Everyone was full time.

[wedding]

At my last job we had both hourly and salary employees. PTO was based on years of service. 80 hours of vacation and 24 hours of sick (way too little) for 0-5yrs then it went up a week of vacation at 5-10 years and another at 10yrs +. No change in sick time with the years.

[origami]

I earn a day per month of PTO and they front load ten days of sick time per year. Both rollover up to a certain point. And that day is one of “my” days, not a standard 8 hour day. So I get 6 hours per month pto which is a full day for me.

[SweetPotato]

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

[origami]

Part time get the same. We’re a government entity and while I’m not union my benefits contract is based on the other union decisions in our district.

However even private agencies locally for similar work (social services) offer the same or better in order to compete.

[Betweenthelines]

I'm union and hourly. It is based on time employed here. At 10 years, I now have 4 weeks vacation, 4 personal days, and each year I get 12 sick days that I can roll over. Everything but the sick is use it or lose it by Dec 31. Once I hit 15 years, I'll get another week vacation, and then at 25 years I will max out at 6 weeks vacation and 5 personal days.

We do not have part time employees.

[Betweenthelines]

Feb 6, 2018 10:42:37 GMT -6 SweetPotato said:

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

We don't have maternity. We use 6 or 8 weeks of our own sick time as "maternity" depending on type of birth, and then we can apply for FMLA if we meet the requirements. It's also department specific, but you can be approved to use all of your PTO in conjunction with sick/FMLA, so I was able to take 6 months off with both my kids, but it was a mix of paid/FMLA/leave of absence 

[gwapes]

Full and part time is the same. I do not know about salary.
I get about 3h of pto every 2 weeks.

No holiday pay though, we get it in pto. So if you work 8h on Christmas, you get paid regular but also get 8h in PTO.

And no sick time. And GL getting any pto approved.

[jubilantsquirrel]

We get 80 hours vacation time, 16 hours of floating holidays, and 80 hours sick time. After your 5th year here you get an additional 40 hours of vacation time and another 40 after 15 years. This is for full time. I know part time employees get vacation and sick time, but I'm not sure how much.

There is some paid leave. If you've been here for 3 years you get 1 week paid leave, 5 years I think gets you 2 weeks, and so on and so on. Otherwise it's FMLA and STD/LTD.

All of our vacation and sick time is use it lose it by the end of the year. I will say that I much preferred the set up at my last job where we accrued PTO and were able to roll some hours over into the new year.

[goldenbird]

PT earn a certain amount for every X amount of hours worked. I can't recall what it was.
FT is based on years of service. It's 1 week for the first year, 2 weeks years 2-8, 3 weeks years 8-15, 4 weeks years 15-20. It goes up to six weeks but I don't remember when.
We also get 3 days per year that are personal holidays, and 5 holidays per year that we can save for whenever. Those are NYD, 4th of July, Labor day, Thanksgiving, Christmas. They don't load into our bank until the week before the holiday though.
FT have to work an avg of at least 1,500? hours in the calendar year to keep that status.
We get 40 hrs of sick time per year.

[goldenbird]

FT gets time & a half if we work on Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Labor Day, and NYD.

[Deleted]

Part time people don't get PTO here.
I get something like 23 days of PTO that is used for whatever I want. We have no differentiation for sick time, vacation, etc. We also don't get any holidays off, but are encouraged to use PTO for days like Christmas and Thanksgiving.

I am more than happy with what I get. We can use PTO in 15 minute increments and I have never had any issues with time off.

[GhoatMonket]

Feb 6, 2018 10:42:37 GMT -6 SweetPotato said:

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

We get 6 days per year of sick leave that automatically rolls forward. 

We just added optional STD for 2017. Prior to that just FMLA unpaid time. 

[honda]

I had:
3 weeks vacation
6 sick days
1 personal day

I also had the option to buy an additional week.


Pt employees accrued vacation based on hours worked. No sick time. No personal time.

[honda]

Feb 6, 2018 10:42:37 GMT -6 SweetPotato said:

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

My employer had the best maternity leave for full time. If you had been with longer than 1 year you got 13 weeks @ 100%. Then an additional 6 weeks at 100% you could use anytime up until your child's first birthday. This was all in addition to the usual vacation.

[chickenonsunday]

Feb 6, 2018 10:42:37 GMT -6 SweetPotato said:

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

FMLA but can get time donated from coworkers if you don't have enough for your entire leave to be paid.

With DD1 I had banked 320 hours of leave and received 80 donated hours to get me to my 10 weeks of paid FMLA.

I had the 10 weeks banked with DD2 and didn't need donated time.

[Deleted]

Feb 6, 2018 11:28:20 GMT -6 @nellybluth said:

Part time people don't get PTO here.
I get something like 23 days of PTO that is used for whatever I want. We have no differentiation for sick time, vacation, etc. We also don't get any holidays off, but are encouraged to use PTO for days like Christmas and Thanksgiving.

I am more than happy with what I get. We can use PTO in 15 minute increments and I have never had any issues with time off.

And we also get to flex our time.

So if I get roped into working a 10 hour day, the following day I can work less hours, which leads to me using less PTO. I always end up having more than I need. But they also let us cash out the PTO twice a year, which is a great benefit. 

[GhoatMonket]

Feb 6, 2018 11:45:41 GMT -6 chickenonsunday said:

Feb 6, 2018 10:42:37 GMT -6 SweetPotato said:

Thanks - this is really helpful.

What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid?

FMLA but can get time donated from coworkers if you don't have enough for your entire leave to be paid.

With DD1 I had banked 320 hours of leave and received 80 donated hours to get me to my 10 weeks of paid FMLA.

I had the 10 weeks banked with DD2 and didn't need donated time.

I have a feeling this policy was unpopular with the accountants.