Extended paid leave for key executives

mjdougherty

We would like to identify key executives who would be eligible for paid time during an extended medical illness. We currently offer 12 weeks of paid leave for medical reasons to all exempt employees. We would like to offer more than 12 weeks to our key executives. Are we going to run into problems if we do this?

ACU Frank

You'll need to create a new class of employee for the executives, then add the job title - not the name of the employee. And please, please, please tell me the current group of individuals who would qualify is not all white and male.

mjdougherty

No, we're safe there. Several women will qualify also. Unfortunately, no ethnic minorities, though.

sonny

Probably won't do a lot for morale either.

ACU Frank

Morale is not necessarily an issue, although MJD shouldn't rule it out.

In most organizations, I think there's an assumption that benefits will be better for senior management. In fact, most people generally assume (and accept) the gap is much wider than it actually is.

I think MJD's organization might have an easier time of it, due to the extremely generous leave policy already in place.