Personal Time Off - Common Practice
Rodney
27 Posts
I would like to get some input on "common practice."
What do you do if someone decreases his work hours from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week? It is still considered full-time employment. Do you pro-rate hours for PTO and therefore cut the number of PTO hours the person gets?
My husband is the employee in question. I have never heard of such a practice and so wanted to put it out to the crowd of experts. Your insights and different points of view I have found to be brillant.
The company handbook only talks about full-time. However, the practice has been to cut the PTO hours. The latest is that now they plan to make the correction in the handbook since my husband has been arguing the point. It has only taken a month to get a reply!
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
What do you do if someone decreases his work hours from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week? It is still considered full-time employment. Do you pro-rate hours for PTO and therefore cut the number of PTO hours the person gets?
My husband is the employee in question. I have never heard of such a practice and so wanted to put it out to the crowd of experts. Your insights and different points of view I have found to be brillant.
The company handbook only talks about full-time. However, the practice has been to cut the PTO hours. The latest is that now they plan to make the correction in the handbook since my husband has been arguing the point. It has only taken a month to get a reply!
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Comments
Why on earth would your husband assume that he is entitled to full time benefits when he only works part time?
If your husband was in our employment he would not have the liberty to make a call to go for a 4 day work week; he would be gone!
PORK
If your husband made arrangements to go to part time, there should have been a discussion of what that meant in the way of earnings, benefits, etc. I'd say that it is customary practice to reduce benefits when an employee goes from full time to part time. We pro-rate some benefits down to half time, and below that, no benefits.
Unless there's a state or local law, I don't believe there's a specific cut-off for providing any benefit. Since employers generally don't have to provide most benefits, it makes sense that the employer gets to set the rules about who gets benefits as long as it doesn't cause discrimination problems.
My husband did not decrease his hours independently. He worked with management to come to an agreement that he could work a 4-day week (32 hours). He is retirement age and wanted to cut back, not retire. He is non-exempt & one of their top producers.
Many people talked about part-time. The fact that benefits are lost when p/t is understood. I just always thought that f/t employees (meaning over 32 hours a week which is what I have always seen as the definition) get full benefits. I guess I thought that included personal time off.
For those who have not thought about an employee wanting to do this, you might want to begin thinking about the changing workforce and that there will be more retirement age employees wanting to/needing to continue to work. Therefore there will be a need for more flexibility in hours. My understanding is that the youngest generation of the workforce is also going to want flexibility. I think the challenge is the 4 generations in the workplace - that is the diversity of tomorrow.
Thanks for your input. All your points are well taken.
I hope you dream comes true, Don. I hope one day to do 3-days (I"m independent) and just keep going as long as I am having fun.
Best wishes to all.