Self employed (business owner). Depending on how you look at it, either zero or whatever I chose.
Realistically, we take a one or two week sun-seeking trip each January or February, with many smaller three day weekend trips in he spring/summer.
What do the enlisted in our armed forces get? Does it roll over?
none and no sick leave. Paid on collections, no work no money. I may however take reasonable time off for vacation and large amounts for sickness if needed. Needed a 4 month and a 2 month peiod in the last 3 years.
All members of the Armed Forces get 30 days per year. It gets rolled over but you can only keep 75 days at the end of the fiscal year. If you are deployed and can’t take leave, your command can request that you do not lose leave at the end of the FY. The only drawback is that in order to be further than a certain distance (usually 250 miles) of your duty station, you must be on leave. So if you want to go home for 2 weeks, you have to take 12 days, to include the weekend in the middle, and then you can’t leave the area until Monday and you have to be back on the following Friday. If you want to leave after work Friday, and come back on Monday, with no chance of being called to work, you must take 16 days for a vacation that in the civilian world would take only 10 days of vacation. People try to game the system(not take leave on those weekend days) all of the time, and people get in trouble all of the time
18 days per year. I have to use it all within the fiscal year.
Sick days are a separate thing. I think they roll over, but to be perfectly honest I don’t really know because I don’t get sick much. Hopefully I will never find out. I’d use them up, but frankly my job is such that if I don’t do the work Monday I just have more to do on Tuesday.
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Military Leave is accrued 2.5 days per month. Unlimited sick time, but it has to be given by a military doctor, and your CO does not have to listen to the doctor. Sick time is either SIQ(sick in quarters) meaning that you better not be seen out in town…, or for a more lengthy time, convalescent leave(I got 3 weeks for my arthroscopic surgery).
The company I work for now gives me just over 5 hours per pay period. works out to 17 days per year. No sick time, 8 paid vacation days. Can carry over 80 hours. No sick time.
None. I’m a contractor. I haven’t had a paid vacation in over 20 years.
Four weeks of annual leave, and the limit on accruals is that I can’t have more than 8 weeks on Jan 1.
Five days of personal leave each year, which does not carry over.
Twelve holidays, two of which are usually designated as floating holidays which don’t carry over.
Eight sick days (in my bargaining unit- others get 13) which can accumulate up to 200 days. Any sick leave I have banked when I retire will give me extra service time toward my pension and provide a credit for part of my health insurance premiums.
I always take my five days of personal leave and two floating holidays and 2-3 weeks of annual leave.Exempt employee, and I get 22 days vacation time. Sick days and random personal hours or single days officially don’t get counted but I count the personal days in the tally I keep.
Only in extraordinary circumstances can we carry days over, so I try to use them all but our work gets busier toward the end of the year so I usually have a few I lose.
ETA: and all nonessential personnel get the time off from Christmas to New Year’s.
I get 42 days of vacation leave plus 21 days of sick/personal leave and 6 days of URTI (upper respiratory tract infection) leave. With the exception of the URTI leave, It all rolls over annually with no limit although there is provision for the company to force you to take leave if they want but I’ve never known them to do that.
We can cash out 14 days of vacation leave a year if we want. I normally cash it out and take most of the rest but vacation leave is currently sitting oat 64 days and my sick leave is at 155 days, so I can comfortably suffer a major illness without any loss of pay.
That word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means. And you have my sympathy. Paid vacations have medicinal quailities.
W have three weeks of annual leave per year, and they gave us about a year’s warning that they were going to start rolling over a maximum of five weeks accrued annual leave at the end of each fiscal year. I was going to be a bit more than 300 hours over if I didn’t buckle down and schedule some time off. I’ve been visiting relatives. I think I’ll make it.
I think we get four weeks of sick leave per year, and there’s no cap on accruing it. I’m over 800 hours. If you take more than three weeks a year, it gets noted on your employee review. They’re looking for scattered absences that might be abuse of sick leave, though, or a sign that you’re not taking care of yourself. If you catch something that takes you out, have an accident, or have surgery that requires six weeks recovery time, it’s noted, but not used against you.
We have all the Caltrans holidays. And in addition, we have furlough days, for which we are not paid. Last year they reduced the number of furlough days, and they might reduce them further this year. They didn’t get much complaint about the furloughs, because they clustered them around holidays, turning a bunch of three day weekends into four day weekends, and giving weeks off around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The lost pay is averaged over the year, so that the clustered days don’t lower any particular paycheck. In the beginning, they had twelve furlough days, so we lost half a day in each half-month pay period.
I work in K-12, so I don’t technically get vacation time but I do get vacations. Plenty of it. 2 weeks for winter break, 1 week spring break, and 5-6 weeks in the summer (I’m in special ed, so we do extended school year), plus federal holidays, etc. It’s not technically PTO, but the regular paycheck still comes in during the vacations. I get 10 sick days, 3 of which can be used as personal days. It’s not a bad gig.
Edit: we did have some furlough days, but after Prop 30 passed, they reinstated all of them that hadn’t gone by already. They had been taking the salary out in small chunks to spread it out, so there was some kind of mass refund at the same time.
Approximately 180 days or so per year. Yes I “use” all of it because I wouldn’t even be allowed to work on my “vacation days” if I wanted to (which I don’t).
Just hit my 10-year anniversary at work, so I’m up to 4 weeks paid per year (plus paid sick time, which accumulates at a rate of about 2 hours per paycheck). Every five years hereafter I’ll get another 20 hours of vacation. One of the perks of a government job. I make about half of what I could be making in the private sector, but the benefits and flexibility make it worth it.
Skimming through this thread I realize the answer will be, “it varies,” but, for the foreigner (since this seems very much an American thing):
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Am I getting this right: if you’re sick, you have to use up a certain amount of days in which your employer permits you to be sick, and if you’re sick longer, you do not get paid?
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There’s no rule applicable nationwide that tells the employer he has to give you days off (whether paid or unpaid)? Have states enacted such rules?
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Teachers aren’t paid over the holidays? But teaching isn’t just what happens in the classroom! What do people think, that lessons prepare themselves?
20 days a year. I acrue something like 13.3 hours a month. You can’t acrue more than 200 hours.
We get 11 or 12 holidays on top of that.
I acrue ~6 hours of sick leave a month. I have something like 700 hours saved up which is pretty impressive since I use a lot last year (father passed away).
I get to use sick time for doctors/dentist/eye appointments, or if I need to take care of my Wife/Mom/Dad etc. I used to use sick leave when I needed to take my dog to the vet. I figured since parents can use it for taking their kids to the Dr. I should be able to use it for my dog. I stopped doing that though. Kind of figured I was pushing my luck with that.
Generally speaking , you don’t get paid if you’ve used up all of your leave. Some jobs don’t grant a certain number of days of sick leave - people sometimes call that “unlimited sick leave” , but it’s really more that there is no preset limit. It doesn’t necessarily mean they will pay you for a year or two if it takes that long to recover or that they will pay you if you call in sick two days a month. Some jobs have other provisions for long term illness/disability- for example, if I need extended sick leave, I am eligible for one week of sick leave at half pay for each year that I have been employed and previous jobs have had short- term disability insurance for absences expected to last longer than six weeks.
I think Connecticut is the only state requiring paid sick leave and a few cities require paid sick leave. Under certain circumstances (which generally don’t apply to minor , short term illnesses ) certain employers are required to provide unpaid leave under either Federal or state laws.
As I understand it, teacher contracts usually require being present a certain number of days which accounts for the both the days classes are in session and any other days when teachers are required to be present. The pay may be divided up in such a way that the teacher receives a pay check all year round. Those who teach in summer school receive additional pay.
5 weeks (artifact of a company acquisition where I was grandfathered under the acquiring company’s policies) and since it’s use-or-lose I do use most of it. Often this leads to me being out at least half of December.
I get 4 weeks a year. I don’t tend to use a lot of vacation time. It’s tough to get time off and I also accrue comp time quite quickly. The vacation time can be saved up to 2000 hours and I can only carry over 100 hours of comp every year. I use the comp for any sick time that I take, although I haven’t called in sick in several years, as well as any vacation time. I think I have about 350 in vacation and 275 in sick…and 154 in comp.
I’m self-employed, so by definition vacation time equals unpaid.