I’m incensed about this, and I need to rant..
My wife very recently became a teacher; there are a lot of really nice things about the school already, and the employees are generally happy working there, but I’m filing myself somewhat livid about the PTO policy- namely that PTO is accrued, with no starting balance. Now, I know this isn’t exactly rare, but there are two things about this I find to be obnoxious an unconscionable: first is the fact that they don’t do PTO rollover, tied with the fact that school years clearly start and end with a clear date, meaning that you are just guaranteed to spend the first few months of school with little to no ability to take off, followed by the second issue, which is that this directly pressures and incentivizes teachers just to go to school sick. which is even further exacerbated by the fact that the beginning of the year is when a ton of staff and students all get sick as the herd comes back together.
It is absurd and insulting, wildly unnecessary, and even dangerous… Considering that it’s pretty rare for teachers to quit their job in the middle of the year, we know that 95-100%, you know ahead of time how much PTO teachers will accrue… And with any other job, if something happens where you have taken more than you accrued, you get charged back either through payroll deduction or you are on the hook for it financially. It’s not that complicated…
And let me just say that having paid time off be accrued is shitty and obnoxious in any field… businesses more than have the means to get paid back for any abuse or overuse .. starting with zero PTO, and not letting a roll over from the previous year just GUARANTEES THERE IS A PERIOD OF AT LEAST A MONTH OR TWO WHERE ALL OF YOUR EMPLOYEES ARE JUST INCENTIVIZE TO COME TO WORK SICK. Adding to the fact that they are responsible for peoples children just makes it staggeringly unjustifiable. even if you want to be shitty about it, start everybody off with two days or something in the bank what the fuck are we doing here?
A little off-topic, but it reminds me of a friend who went into prolonged labor with her first child, which put them being born on the first of the new year… Meaning that their deductible reset and they were immediately fucked because for some reason insurance can only function January 1 to December 31 … so, if you have a baby in January you’re fucked too , I guess