Yeah we no longer call them sick days since moving to PTO, they're now "unscheduled full day occurrences". Folk can call in up to five times per year, with an occurrence being up to two consecutive business days, so essentially up to ten unscheduled days per year if you were to do two days each time. But, you gotta have hours to cover them.
Which brings us to unpaid/unscheduled time off "UTO". In addition to the PTO we earn weekly, every January we get a bank of 36 UTO hours, they don't roll like PTO, so it's just the yearly allotment. These cover running late, having to leave early cause something unplanned came up, etc. Only rub is it's always charged as a full hour regardless if you ran 5 minutes late or a full hour late. When UTO comes in, PTO is optional and only gets charged as well if you want to get paid for the time.
Full day call outs only charge UTO if you don't have PTO to cover the full day. Useful if you come home with vacation crud or something with only six hours of PTO. In which case you'd get six hours PTO charged, and two unpaid hours of UTO charged (assuming an eight hour scheduled day).
Here's where it gets fun though. Once you've gone through your allowed number of call ins, you can keep calling in....using UTO. So assuming you work an eight hour schedule and never use your PTO for anything else, that max of ten days magically becomes 14. Or you can just show up for work an hour late 36 times a year..
When we switched to PTO there was much pissing and moaning. But the system gaming with the full policy, especially the UTO part, is why I was sitting there shaking my head with.
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