(First time post, on mobile. Sorry not sorry)
Company based out of North Dakota, my job in Washington state.
I have been with this company for about 9 months now. My position isn’t very high up the ladder, but it’s important to the day to day operations. My co workers see me as more of the person in charge than our actual manager. The job is super chill, a lot of down time.
Anyway. Before I started, the company was bought out and merged into a bigger corporate conglomerate company. New systems came down, new benefit structures, new management. A lot of the employees from before weren’t too happy with the change. When I started, all this change was done with and the dust settled. Now, they’re merging the smaller companies into the bigger mother company, and merging payroll into one. This merger will cause our pay dates to be switched. Normally, our first payday for April would be the first. Now it will be the 8th.
This is we’re I’m peeved. To make the switch, they have to split a pay period and give us a week paycheck from the work done March 13-19. This is paid on March 25. But during that week, we do not accrue PTO time. (Normally we get 3.08 hours of PTO for a pay period) PTO accrual will continue as normal in the new pay period.
I don’t care about the week of pay to make the change to the new dates… the new dates definitely make it difficult to adjust with bills and whatnot. But I’ll be okay. What really bothers me is how we’re not getting the PTO that would have been earned during that week. Is this a “normal” occurrence to those that have dealt with this or are in an HR department?
This company also is skating right under a state law for mandated sick leave time due to a loophole, and is also blatantly not giving paid sick leave to one of our part time employees who fall under than law. I asked HR about this, and had the state law printed out and they just said that our PTO that is accrued covers the state mandated sick time. And then I told them about our part time worker, and they just said “he can call us and work something out.”
I have plans to leave around September, so not looking to stay here for life.. but this is really irritating still.