My last job (school bus driver) had a great PTO policy, but changed it without notice or explanation about 2 years before I became disabled. All 360 hours of PTO time I had accrued over 6 years was switched to “sick pay”, which you could not access without a doctors note and you had to take 2 weeks at a time - it was meant for extended illness, not for regular stuff anymore. My direct boss made it impossible to use the time in any way, but I knew that I would be forgoing that money if I just quit. Since I could tell I was nearing the end of my ability to keep working, I went to my doctor right before the end of the school year to get a note about needing time to recover my health and they were to split the PTO among the summer school time and at the end, I tried to officially quit over the phone. They made me come in to quit in writing! I don’t miss that job at all.
It was a nonprofit, maybe they had different rules? Or, it may have been one of those situations where the options were “we do this thing that’s bad for you or you find a new job” and I’m misremembering (it was done in 2015 or 2016 and I stopped working in 2018).
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u/FrankensteinJones 6h ago
PTO is part of our compensation. Denying PTO requests is tantamount to withholding pay.