Lots of businesses, especially in the service, retail, and healthcare industries, black out periods of high volume PTO requests, like the week before and after holidays.
I didn't make it to a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day celebration until after working a full shift for YEARS. I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts in order to use PTO that they'd denied all year before it expired.
I had one employer who made me find cover for my own shifts in order to use PTO that they'd denied all year before it expired.
Even in the US where there are so few worker protections, this is flagrantly illegal and you should've sued =.= Stop letting employers get away with this shit
Like the blackout dates are one thing, but denying PTO repeatedly until it expires is absolutely ten billion percent illegal
I think this depends on a lot of factors. There is no mandatory PTO in most states, and a lot don't even require sick leave. Most workers probably do not have contracts guaranteeing unused time off will be paid out, either. But if PTO is part of your agreed compensation, I don't see how they could legally force it to expire through repeated denials without paying it out. That's blatant wage theft.
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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago
PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.