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Post by angelashly on Feb 6, 2018 11:54:16 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? Ours is just FMLA and we have to use sick time and then PTO unless we bought the short term disability insurance offered.
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Post by withanie on Feb 6, 2018 11:57:28 GMT -6
My work just rolled out a maternity leave policy. You get 12 weeks paid 100%, half of that is STD paying a portion and the company making up the rest. The non birth parent gets 4 weeks paid in full.
They just upped our PTO too. I think you start out accruing up to 23 days and then after so many years you can get up to 27 or 29 days. I can't remember exactly but its pretty generous.
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Post by GhoatMonket on Feb 6, 2018 11:57:51 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? Ours is just FMLA and we have to use sick time and then PTO unless we bought the short term disability insurance offered. We have to use our sick and PTO and then we can use STD.
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Post by mb3 on Feb 6, 2018 12:03:41 GMT -6
Everyone gets 3 personal days per year, as long as they work 20 hours/week or more (minimum to be benefit eligible). Sick time and vacation time accrue by some formula (like a 40 hour person would get 1 day/X number of weeks) and people who work fewer than 40 hours accrue by their percentage- so a 20 hour person would have 0.5 days.
I can’t remember the exact formula as I’m no longer benefit eligible.
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Post by wedding on Feb 6, 2018 12:27:07 GMT -6
Because we were a small business - its either under 30 employees or under 50 employees- we weren't held to FMLA. But we were held to the State's version which is 8 weeks. All of this is unpaid so we could use our PTO for it.
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Post by jorkzy on Feb 6, 2018 12:32:49 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? Mat leave here is paid by the govt at 55% of yearly income to a certain max level but employers can opt to top up to normal wage if they want. My employer topped up to STD level (so I think 67% of pay?) for 6-8 weeks, depending on delivery mode, as long as you had enough sick hours to qualify for STD.
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Post by fikafairy on Feb 6, 2018 12:49:31 GMT -6
Hourly and salary employees are given the same amount of time regardless of status. Our company has centers that are open 24/7, so they give us 25 days to start, which includes 10 paid holidays. We still get to use the time however we want (so if I wanted to work Christmas Day, I could). We also get 8 sick days, of which if you use less than 24 hours, the remainder doubles for the year and rolls over.
I can also use a vacation day in lieu of a sick day (which I do whenever possible) since vacation doesn't roll over. After 2 years of service, you get 26 vacation days. After 5, I think you get 28? Then it maxes out somewhere in the 30s. I don't think sick time changes, but it rolls over indefinitely, up to a predetermined max yearly carryover, which I don't remember offhand but is an obscene amount of time.
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Post by potatocakes on Feb 6, 2018 13:21:41 GMT -6
Full time employees (not different for hourly vs. salaried) get 18 days of Vacation, and 7 days of Sick, accrued a few hours at a time per paycheck, so by the end of a year you would have that much. Part time employees who work 25+ hours a week accrue the same number of days off, but it comes out to fewer hours (so you could still take 18 vacation days if you work 30 hours per week, but you only get paid for your same 6 hours/day). You don't get more leave as you become more senior, but you do (from the beginning) have the opportunity to sell some leave back on your anniversary date each year.
ETA: Maternity Leave - in CA so that makes a difference, but we get the first 12 weeks paid by the state for disability and Paid Family Leave, followed by an additional 6 weeks, but you have to use 10 vacation days to get those 6 weeks. It's a bit complicated, but allowed me to take about 4 months with DD where I was paid for a little over 3 months of it, and will allow me to take 5+ months with this one, and get paid for about 3.5-4 months of it. CA SDI/PFL pays out at 60% of your salary, and the SDI portion is untaxed, so it's about the same as your normal taxed take home.
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Post by fikafairy on Feb 6, 2018 13:22:00 GMT -6
I don't actually know what the benefits are for PT here, TBH.
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Post by Cupcakemama on Feb 6, 2018 13:27:40 GMT -6
Union employee here and in Canada. For part time employees we get a % on each pay for vacation and then take vacation unpaid depending on length of service. I believe its 4% and 1 day a month up to 1 year of service. 6% and 3 weeks for years 1-7, 8% and 4 weeks for years 7-15, 10% and 5 weeks for yrs 15-25 and 12% and 6 weeks for 25+ years. For full time they get the same time off paid. Sick time full time employees earn 6 hrs a month, part time have no paid sick time. Both full and part time have 1 paid Lieu day a year they can take. Mat leave is 55% paid by the government for 1 yr. Employer tops up to 75%. I am not sure for paternity leave.
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Post by fikafairy on Feb 6, 2018 13:28:04 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? There is no official sick or maternity leave (yet... I keep hearing rumors though) but it's part of the reason that our sick time is doubled if you don't use it. So you can bank your sick time forever basically, and whatever you don't use that year doubles. There is a max cap of how much carries over that i don't remember, but it's a ridiculous amount of time. They do this in lieu of STD/official leave, and for the most part it works pretty well. Based on the time I would have had banked up at the time, I would have been able to take just about my entire ML of 12 weeks, paid. After the c/s and loss, I only took 6 weeks off and I still had sick time left over that rolled over, but that did not double that year.
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Post by thatgolfb on Feb 6, 2018 13:33:16 GMT -6
I work for a university hospital. Everyone gets the university holidays paid, I think there are 12 or 13 plus a floating holiday for Cesar Chavez day which we work on. 12 sick days, but we do get "occurrences" for each separate illness, which can add up to verbal warnings and eventually dismissal, but we get like 16 occurrences in a one year period before dismissal (this includes days we are late, etc). Plus I get 40 hours of "kincare" where I can use my sick day without incurring occurrences, if my kid is sick. We start with 15 days vacation (accrued on biweekly basis), and each year of service we add a vacation day, up to 20 I think. So we have pretty generous time off, much better than my previous employer.
We also have health care and other benefits, plus pension.
I think that part time employees can get some of this benefit at the employer's discretion, but per diem employees, which are common in my line of work, do not (but are paid a higher hourly wage). Part time is super rare at my institution though. Per diem is much more common.
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Post by gwapes on Feb 6, 2018 13:47:20 GMT -6
Short and long term are optional, but, as I just learned...if you don't sign up when you are first eligible then you have to submit medical info which they can use to deny coverage. ..(overweight, weeee)
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Post by goldenbird on Feb 6, 2018 14:29:00 GMT -6
We just have FMLA & STD.
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Post by ajm on Feb 6, 2018 15:07:02 GMT -6
Hourly employees earn PTO (which encompasses vacation, PTO and sick time) per pay period. I currently earn 6.5 hrs of PTO every pay period (every 2 weeks). When you start I believe it starts at 5, give or take. It increases slowly the longer you are there.
We also get paid holidays.
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ajm
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Post by ajm on Feb 6, 2018 15:11:23 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? They just announced 1 week paid maternity/paternity leave last year. Otherwise we have to use up our PTO and then the rest unpaid. Our company doesn't qualify for FMLA, but we do have short term and long term disability. We can use the short term disability during maternity leave which is what I'm planning on.
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Post by thatgolfb on Feb 6, 2018 15:24:46 GMT -6
Thanks - this is really helpful. What about like maternity or sick leave? Is it just the FMLA minimum or something better/paid? At my former job, I was paid through disability for 66% of my job, plus my employer topped up to 100% of my salary. This was for 6 weeks post partum, plus 4 weeks prior to due date (which ended up being 2.5 weeks with DD1). Then CA paid another 6 weeks at 66% for baby bonding. My current employer doesn't use state disability, they have their own system. This time around, I was paid for disability at 60% 4 weeks prior to due date (ended up being 3, but actually 1 because of a 2 week waiting period, and I had to use all my sick time before getting disability benefits anyway), plus 6 weeks post partum at 60% of my salary. No topping up, but in California we have CFRA in addition to FMLA, which doesn't start until disability ends. It is 12 weeks each. So I took 6 weeks disability, and I'm taking another 10 weeks unpaid via CFRA. I will take my last 2 weeks CFRA any time before baby turns 1 (probably over the summer). Most of this is due to California and not necessarily my employer. It is really rare for an employer to top up and I actually found out they stopped offering that sometime after I left.
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Post by thatgolfb on Feb 6, 2018 15:25:37 GMT -6
Oh and all vacation rolls over to a certain point. Sick time rolls over indefinitely i think, and can be paid out when I leave. I think.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 18:12:33 GMT -6
During your first year after your 90 day evaluation you get a prorated pro bank. Your pro bank is sick and vacation together.
Starting January 1st anyone between years 1-5 gets 20 days and it goes up one day a year until you are at 30 days. We can roll over half of our days earned each year. We also have opportunities by taking classes to earn additional days. Part time employees get a prorated versionnof this.
We get 9 paid holidays a year. Maternity leave you can use pto in conjunction to get to 100% salary with std or you can save your pto and they will get you to 85% pay while your on std. you can take the rest of your time under Fmla and the paid family leave act.
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Post by Sundae on Feb 6, 2018 18:16:57 GMT -6
When I was hourly we got time and a half OT, two weeks of vacation (accruing throughout the year) and up to two weeks sick time. The sick time, of not taken, proportionally paid for a gym reimbursement at the end of the year.
Our maternity leave was 3 weeks full pay, three weeks half pay after five years. Laughable. So for my first kid I got a week paid in part. We could take up to the 12 weeks FLMA as long as we covered our expenses (dental health deductions) during the unpaid time.
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Post by kmkd on Feb 6, 2018 18:47:28 GMT -6
At my jobs where I work per diem and am paid hourly, I have no benefits. When I work within NYC, I do accrue a tiny bit of PTO because there is a newish regulation that requires it. I believe it was geared towards protecting service employees who never get sick time, but I’m not positive. It might be a helpful guideline in terms of what is required though. Edited to clarify that I’m a per diem employee and not full or part time but paid hourly, which I realize changes the available benefits.
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