I am a non-clinical worker at a hospital in Oregon. I wanted to request some time off at the end of May for a friend’s wedding, but since I want to take 36 hours off and will “only” have 55 hours of accrued ETO at that time my request was denied.
Supervisor has said it’s for “our protection” in case we run out of ETO and need to call out sick, but we also have a separate bank for sick pay hours (I currently have about 67 hours of sick pay accrued)
There is supposedly a policy that we are not able to use our sick pay unless we have at least 24 hours of ETO saved up but that just doesn’t make any sense to me.