I'm a salaried employee in the hospitality industry, and my workplace is in person pretty much 365 days a year. We are located in Canada (this is relevant for the next bit). I've been with them for over a year now.
As a salaried employee, we have an agreement that if a salaried employee works a statutory holiday, instead of receiving the same stat pay as hourly employees, we get a PTO day-in-lieu sort of deal. There are 11 stats a year and I have worked all of them, and am also entitled to two weeks paid vacation per Canadian labor laws. I have taken exactly one day off in the last year, and therefore have accumulated four weeks of leave.
Here is where it gets wild: I am planning to have surgery in the spring. My employer has known about this since the date was confirmed earlier this year. It's an “elective” surgery (I'm getting a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy as I've had lots of lumps and cysts over the years and a family history). As such, I need to take time off work but am not covered for short term disability, so I've just been banking my days. Last week, I put in my six weeks PTO “request” (it's not a request) and this week my employer asked to “touch base about my leave request”. They essentially said they are not in a personnel situation to grant it, and further, my banked days in lieu cannot be taken in large blocks like this.
After this meeting I got in touch with my provincial labor board, and of course my employer is full of shit. Because of the contractual agreement about statutory holidays, they are obligated to pay them out at the end of an employment situation. So I'm gonna bump my request down to two weeks, and then submit my notice the morning of my surgery and just get paid out all my owed days in a lump sum on my last cheque. Sure, there'll be taxes, but ain't nothing sweeter than fucking over companies who try to fuck you first.