I’ve never had a job with this, but a Simpsons I just saw made a joke about it, and was wondering how common this is?
On second thought, this maybe should have been in IMHO? Could a mod change if necessary- sorry.
You mean transferable as in, to another employee?
If so, yes we have a program for that here. There are restrictions on it, like you have to have at least 40 hours of ETO (employee time off) left in your own ‘bank’ after the transfer and the person must be on extended leave and have exhausted their own. As part of the “we want to help!” thing, a group of people in my office donated paid time off to one of our co-workers who was diagnosed with a pretty rare bone cancer.
Not to another employee, no. I’ve never come across such a practice before.
I have seen it. It is often a pretty crappy thing when employees are asked to donate some vacation days to another employee with adverse life circumstances rather than company just taking care of it themselves.
That sounds like a shitty thing to do- at least they ask you in private, right, and not in front of everyone else?
My current company allows employees to donate vacation hours to a pool, and they tap into the pool whenever there is a need. You cannot donate hours to a specific employee.
I am currently working on a contract at the IRS and they have the same sort of deal. I don’t know if that is specific to the IRS or true of all federal agencies. I saw one email telling people about an IRS employee who was in particular dire circumstances, soliciting leave donations, although I don’t think you can earmark your particular hour for a specific person.
Federal agencies are covered by the Federal Employees Leave Sharing Act of 1988. According to the site, donations are made to specific named recipients.
Yes, I’ve heard of and seen it. My father works for a state-level agency here in California and had some time donated to him by his coworkers when he went on temporary disability.
The Commonwealth of Virginia allows donation of annual leave from one employee to another. You have to like them a whole lot to do it, but that doesn’t stop the begging emails on behalf of this and that person you barely know.
I did it twice. A relatively new employee who had been burned out of their home, and a very old friend who was serially fucked over by medical issues, both her own, and her family.
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The local governments in California I’ve worked for have only let you donate the excess vacation or sick time to a pool, not to a person. I’ve worked for both a city and a county.
So how do the mechanics of the donation work when the donation is made to a specific employee? If employee A (earning $500 per week) donates a week’s leave to employee B (earning $400 per week), how much does employee B get paid during the week off?
- does B get all $500?
- does B get the normal $400, with the extra $100 going back to A?
- does B get the normal $400, with the extra $100 retained by the employer as "windfall’ profit?
Where I work, B gets the $400- which would give my employer a windfall in that transaction. But since it also works in reverse- if B donates to A , A gets $500, it probably roughly balances out. The records are kept in terms of hours, not dollars ( which is good, since I have sick leave I accumulated 10 years ago when I earned half as much as I do now)
In Spain there’s no earmarked sick days. Vacation is supposed to be taken in the same year it’s earned; compensation time (the preferred form of payback for overtime) can be accumulated from one year to the next if the worker requests it. In this case it’s normally taken in January, but not compulsory. You can’t be saving time for longer than that.
I know it’s similar in Sweden, I’ve had coworkers in both places who “saved their back overtime” from one year to the next and then had, respectively, three months diving in Australia and a 10-week honeymoon leave. The looks in their managers’ faces? Priceless.
Transferring from one employee to another is a notion that would give both unions and companies Over Here the fits.
My company used to allow you to donate sick leave to someone in need but that practice has been stopped. Now, all you can do is sell your annual leave (at full value) or sick leave (at 25 cents on the dollar) and give it to someone else.
Note that, at least for this federal employee, you can only transfer annual leave. Sick leave, credit time, and comp time are all disallowed.