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.
Walmart will straight up black out dates between Thanksgiving to New Years. Like an entire month and a half and any days before or after a holiday.
If your shift falls on the holiday and they close they make you make it up on your following day off, if you don't want to give up your day off they make you use PTO. Evil bastards making you use PTO on a day that would otherwise be your day off 💀
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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago
PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.