So my workplace schedules us 12 days on, two days off, every other weekend basically.
If we want to take Saturday off, I also am required to take Friday. Or Sunday off requires Monday off also. If we want both Saturday and Sunday off, we must take off Friday/Mon, or Thurs/Fri or Mon/Tues. Every weekend day off requires us to take an attached weekday off also.
It's not in the employee handbook. Just the phrasing of “pto to be approved by manager based on company needs”. So it's an unwritten rule.
It's designed to discourage us from taking weekends off by doubling the rate at which we use PTO. And it has to be PTO, can't used unpaid time off. 1st year no vacation days, second year is 5. So second year I can only take 2 weekend days off total, and have one extra day for a weekday.
72 hour weeks… Ugh.. I want to challenge it but that wording is a bitch.