Anyone taken unpaid PTO? I can’t figure out how to get any useful info from the employee handbook on this.
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What do you mean by ‘occurrence’ ?
It depends on what department your in and if your manager will approve it. I was able to take a week unpaid but I did get 2 occurances, which my manager explained. It was towards the end of the year, and January brought new PTO, and I didn't have any occurances so it was doable for me.
Most Managers discourage it. We were told once by our Dept. CIO at the time, that we were absolutely not supposed to request it and it would be denied.
PTO= paid time off
Unpaid time off = leave of absence
there are various types - search "leave of absence" on teamworks
Just request a leave of absence. I think you can do it through Workday now. I've done it twice.
what do you mean by "change abuse" == or change fatique? The best way to deal with change is to right down what it is. Specify the cultural shift. Is it offshoring, location change, methodology change, personnel above/below change, team change (creation, dissolution), management change... Soon many of us will be in an interview (hopefully). We will be asked why did you leave Wells Fargo. What should our answer be?
@a3 change abuse deserves its own post on here.
nope, because I don't use up all my PTO. Ultimately if you need extended unpaid time off then go out on leave. If you are talking about a couple days due to having used up your time for the year, so long as your boss approves the request in workday you would go into a negative balance, still getting paid, and as you continue to accrue each month it will resolve the negative balance. if you leave the company with a negative balance. they will claw the money back.
Most people call it Leave of Absence (LOA) as that seems to be a huge trend I've seen over the last 2-3 years. I know of at least 10 people across biz and control who did it. Interesting that it correlates so closely with huge culture shift in this company and people dealing with change abuse (formerly known as change fatigue). Death by papercuts!